5/31/2018
• Cell Tower Industry Puts out Call for
Tower Climbers
• AT&T in $30M Settlement over
Tower Climber's Fall
• Median U.S.
Tower Climber Salary $56,000 per BLS
•
Wireless Industry Association CEO Highlights Network Convergence
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Voyager's Golden Record May Paint Humans in a Confusing Way
5/30/2018
• FCC Nails
5 More Pirates - One a Pastor
• Apple iPhone X Becomes
World's Best-Selling Smartphone Model in Q1 2018 (at a kilobuck per copy)
• Is 5G a Panacea for
All Things IoT?
• Failures in Power Grids: Dynamically Induced Cascades
•
Alan Bean, Moonwalker Turned Artist, Dies at 86
5/29/2018
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Endless Design Patent Case Orders Samsung to Pay Apple $539M
• DOD Tightens Rules on
Personal Mobile Devices
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Indian Telcos Hit 1.2B Mobile Subscribers but Struggle to Cash In
• Google Employees Quit in Protest over Pentagon
Drone AI Project
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Data Consumption in Middle East and Africa to Double in 5 Years
5/28/2018
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U.S. Websites Go Dark in Europe as GDPR Data Rules Kick In
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Tech Companies Scramble as Sweeping Data Rules Take Effect
• The U.S. Is
Running out of Bombs
• Netcomm Wireless and Ericsson Announce
IoT Partnership
• Why Are We So
Scared of Robots?
5/25/2018
• Samsung Hosts
3GPP Final Standalone 5G Standards Meeting
•
Tech 'Nobel' Awarded to Finnish Physicist for Small Smart Devices
• French Telcos Invest Record Breaking €9.6B to
Focus on Fibre
• No One Listens to the Radio Anymore - Fact or Fiction?
• China Launches Queqiao
Lunar Satellite
5/24/2018
• FCC Considers Small Cell Guidelines for States
• HMD Global Raises $100M for
Nokia Smartphone Reboot
• Most
Researchers Disclose Their Results Before Publication
• French Gov Congratulates Itself for
Operator Investments
• Chain Cuts
Auto Import Tariff from 25% to 15%
5/23/2018
•
Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem
• FCC Proposes $5.3M Fine for
Slamming / Cramming
• U.S. and China Close to Finalizing
ZTE Deal
• Qualcomm, Facebook to Trial
Fixed Wireless Access at 60 GHz
• Qualcomm Unveils
5G NR Solution for Small Cells
5/22/2018
• News Crew Discovers 40
Cellphone
Tracking Devices Operating Around D.C.
• Post-Launch Signals Received as
Amateur Radio Heads to Moon
• U.S.
Additive Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Growing
• Global, U.S.
Electronics Supply Chains See Healthy Midyear Business Conditions
• Most Companies Won't Make
GDPR Deadline
5/21/2018
• Super Semiconductor:
Stiff in Day, Bendy at Night
• CQ Announces 2018
Hall of Fame Inductees
• Highly Sensitive
Encrypted Email at Risk of Exposure
• Ofcom Reveals
UK Consumer Telecoms Value for Money is Improving
(except see below)
• Britain's
Broadband Speeds 51% Slower Than Advertised
5/18/2018
• Google, Facebook, Others Press for
6 GHz Rulemaking
• New Material
Reduces Losses in Inductive Components
• Global Ecosystem Integration Key
China's Semiconductor Industry Growth
• Harris to Modernize India's
ATC Communications Infrastructure
• 1/4 of Americans Spend
All Day Inside
5/17/2018
• Distributor Warns of
Chip Resistor Shortage (amazing!)
• "Last Man Standing" Moving to Fox Network
• Verizon Names Los Angeles as
5G City
•
Skyworks Unveils Suite of Sky5™ Solutions
•
5G Rollouts More Nuanced Than Past Coverage Blasts
5/16/2018
• Apple Urges FCC to Keep More
High Spectrum Unlicensed
• Physicists Decry Call for U.S.
Visa Restrictions on Chinese Researchers
• Does Radio Need More
Deregulation?
• UK Billionaire Invests £24M in
Goonhill Earth Station
•
Amateur Radio Parity Act Language Inserted in National Defense Authorization
Act
5/15/2018
• U.S. U-turn Gives Hope to
ZTE
• Hughes to Prototype Multi-Modem Adaptor for
Wideband SATCOM
• 3
CubeSats with Amateur Radio Payloads Deployed from ISS
•
Xiaomi Tops Smartphone Market in India
• Snoopy Joining Sony? Music Unit Buying Stake in
Peanuts
5/14/2018
• FCC Imposes Fine for Illegal
Signal Jammer
• USTelecom Petitions FCC to Ease up on '90s-Era Rules on
Landline Providers
• Britain Backs French Plan for
European Defence Force
• Android P Tackles
Phone Addiction, Distraction
• BT Promises £3.7B Budget for
FTTH and 5G, Despite Massive Job Cuts
5/11/2018
•
RF Power Semiconductors Near $1.5B for 2017 with GaN Dominating
• ARRL Asks FCC to Protect
Amateur Radio Millimeter-Wave Bands
• University Spinout Targets Mass-Market-Scale
Graphene
IP
• Nokia and SFR Conduct 5G Calls Using
3.5 GHz Spectrum in France
• IEEE Approves
802.11 aj for Increased High-BW Wireless LAN in China
5/10/2018
• China Said to Raising $47B
Semiconductor
Fund
• ARRL Announces 2018 QST
Antenna Design Competition
• 5G NR Deployments Boost Global
Macro-Cell Transceiver Shipments
• Global
Semiconductor Packaging Materials Market Tops $16B
• T-Mobile Has Highest
CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio
5/9/2018
• Chip Sales Running 20% Above 2017 Pace
• GaN Drove
RF Power Semiconductor Growth in Market in 2017
•
T-Mobile Execs Change Tune on Fixed Wireless Following Sprint Merger
Deal
•
Skyworks' Q2 FY18 Revenue up 7% YoY
• Intel Resets Clock on
10-Nanometer Technology
5/8/2018
• Could
BlackBerry Displace Apple? (that would
be a real turn-about)
•
Pirate Radio Stations Explode on YouTube
•
Massive MIMO Market to Grow at 41%, be Worth $20.9B by 2026
• ARRL Counting Down to
Hamvention 2018
• BMW to Use Innoviz Lidar for Autonomous Cars
5/7/2018
•
Pentagon Halts Huawei and ZTE Phone Sales on Military Bases
•
Twitter CTO Admits "Glitch" Exposed Your Password
•
GDPR is Just the Beginning as Europe Targets 'Digital Sweat Factories'
•
FCC Seeks Comment on Sharing in 3.7-4.2 GHz Band
•
5G Poised for Commercial Rollout by 2020
5/4/2018
Mobile Phone Cancer Warning as Malignant Brain Tumours Double
Amateur Radio Case Attracts Attention of FCC Commissioner
Sodium Material with Novel Structure Eyed for New Battery Designs
Xilinx Reports Record Revenues, Searches for UK Engineers
SSprint's Roaming Agreement with T-Mobile Doesn't Impact VoLTE Rollout
5/3/2018
Global Semiconductor Sales up 20% oY in Q1
TSMC Cuts Forecasts on Smartphone Weakness
China Mobile & Huawei Launch 5G Innovation Center in Beijing
5G Fuels Latest T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Proposal
EEurope Day On the Air 2018 Activity May 4 – 6
5/2/2018
iPhone Users Discover That Siri Has a Bad Mouth
T-Mobile, Sprint Agree to Merge
FCC Reports on Stepped up Enforcement Against Pirate Radio Operations
Sprint, Mobilitie to Pay $11M Fine for Building Illegal Towers
DDARPA Looks for Better Satellite Security
5/1/2018
Establishing Freedom of Action Will Propel EW Market Opportunities
How
Success Breeds Success in the Sciences (does failure
breed failure?)
Chinese Smartphone Market Is Shrinking
Ofcom: BT Must Fibre up or Risk Fading Away
Nokia Q1 Revenues Decline, Revamp Seen in Sales Due to 5G
