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Retail Asia17/07/2023

Wi-Fi might be on the way out even though Wi-Fi 7 is on the way in. The IEEE standards body that oversees Wi-Fi has released the IEEE 802.11bb light communications standard that will cover the emerging Li-Fi technology. Instead of using wireless network signals, Li-Fi uses invisible (to the human eye, anyway) infrared light to […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

According to data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), total wireless subscribers reached 1,166.30 million at the end of October 2021, with the urban areas accounting for 637.44 million and rural areas totaling 528.86 million. As on 31 October, 2021, private access service providers held 89.99% market share of wireless subscribers, with […]

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Retail Asia07/07/2021

Infinet Wireless, the global leader in fixed wireless broadband connectivity, announces a new distribution partnership with Terra Matrix, the major player in the Malaysian telecoms space. Terra Matrix Sdn. Bhd. Specializes in the wholesale distribution of wireless communications and CCTV solutions, leading from the front with strategic projects across the country. It has a highly qualified […]

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Retail Asia02/06/2021

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, together with a local operator in Pakistan, has built a base station and completed several kilometers of wireless coverage around the station at the K2 base camp for the world’s second-highest peak on the border between China and […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2019

Unlike arch-rival Apple Music, Spotify has both free and paid service tiers, which explains why the industry-leading streaming platform jumped to a mind-blowing 248 million monthly active users at the latest quarterly count while racking up “only” 113 million premium subscribers. Of course, it can be profitable to get people to use Spotify without paying a […]

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Retail Asia15/07/2019

Quick. Name the most valuable brand name in the world. Apple? nope. Google? That answer is so 2018. According to the 2019 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands rankings computed by WPP and Kantar, Amazon is the most valuable brand with a value of $315 billion. Since the report considers Amazon to be a […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2019

It used to be that wireless charging was a nice-to-have but not got-to-have feature. These days, however, high-end smartphones have started to pick up on the interest and including this as standard feature. So when IHS Markit made its forecasts of the wireless power market, the analyst made it clear that mobile phones were an […]

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Retail Asia14/05/2019

Following the launch of 5G services in Chicago and Minneapolis, US operator Verizon announced 20 new cities where it will turn on its 5G Ultra Wideband network this year. Verizon previously said it will launch 5G services in parts of at least 30 cities in 2019. The new cities include Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, […]

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Retail Asia05/04/2019

ZTE expects to have swung back to profit in the first quarter, after reporting an annual loss in 2018 as a result of the temporary ban on its import of components from US vendors. The Chinese vendor estimates a net profit for the first quarter of 800 million yuan ($118.9 million) to 1.2 billion yuan, which […]

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Retail Asia01/04/2019

Norway’s capital Oslo will become the first city in the world to install wireless charging systems for electric taxis, hoping to make recharging quick and efficient enough to speed the takeup of non-polluting cabs. The project will use induction technology, with charging plates installed in the road at taxi ranks linking to receivers installed in […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2019

Juniper Networks has arranged to acquire Mist Systems, a provider of cloud-managed wireless network solutions powered by artificial intelligence, for $405 million. Juniper Networks plans to use the acquisition to fill wireless gaps in its enterprise networking portfolio through the addition of Mist’s WLAN platform. Mist’s AI-driven wireless platform is designed to enhance the reliability of […]

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Retail Asia22/02/2019

Korea’s Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki said once the world’s first 5G smartphone is introduced at the end of March and 5G connectivity is in full swing, life will improve significantly. “Commercialized 5G is a core infrastructure of the fourth industrial revolution as it superconnects everything in real time and transfers massive amounts of data at […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2018

SK Telecom has developed a new IoT-based solution which allows farmers to monitor the health of their cattle in real-time using Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology). Dubbed “LiveCare”, the product is a LoRa-equipped biocapsule which is implanted into a cow’s gastrointestinal tract to monitor a variety of health indicators. The new service […]

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Retail Asia18/06/2018

Diebold Nixdorf is teaming up with Mastercard to trial two services that provide cash banking users on the go – Mastercard Cash Pick-Up and Cardless ATM powered by Mastercard. The cash pick-up service allows banks to deliver cash more quickly, securely and easily to any authenticated consumer – banked or unbanked – through enabled ATMs, […]

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Retail Asia10/01/2018

Living in a digital society, wireless phone charging has become a commonplace daily activity. Technology is becoming more advanced in the 21st century and it is creating an ecosystem of various wireless charging gadgets that are not just for smartphones. Nowadays, wireless phone charging can be done not only at home but also at public […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2017

Cobham Wireless has made available of its new network test solution dubbed TM500 which can validate 5G network performance. Touted as an industry first, the TM500 provides operators and network equipment manufacturers with a scalable system to test network performance as experienced by end users. The TM500 5G test solution simulates multiple devices connecting to […]

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Retail Asia27/04/2017

Australia’s nbn, the state-owned company building the National Broadband Network, has achieved speeds of over 1Gbps during a trial of fixed wireless technology. The company used carrier aggregation to combine seven 3.4-GHz carriers with four in the 2.3-GHz bands, achieving a downlink speed of 1.1Gbps and upstream speeds of 165Mbps. Using a range of various […]

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Retail Asia11/04/2017

The global equipment market for in-building wireless system, including active distributed antenna systems (DAS), passive DAS, and repeaters, is expected to grow to $10 billion in 2025, according to ABI Research. Yet, out of this market, 5G in-building wireless equipment will account for only 5% or $509 million in 2025, due to one year or […]

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Retail Asia13/09/2016

Softbank and its affiliate company, Wireless City Planning, have officially launched the ‘5G Project’. As the first phase of the project, which was announced in Tokyo last week, Softbank plans to roll out commercial services based on Massive MIMO technology from September 16, a move which Softbank says will make it the world’s first cellco […]

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Retail Asia18/07/2016

AccorHotels Group has selected Ruckus Wireless as the preferred Wi-Fi partner for its chain of more than 3,700 hotels in 90 countries. The company has started implementing 802.11ac access point technology from the vendor at hotels including Novotel Hong Kong Nathan Bay Kowloon to improve performance for both customers and staff. As part of the […]

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