12/31/2019
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5G Devices Go Mainstream in 2020
• Southampton University Spin-off
Reduces 5G Latency by 16x
• Dayton
Hamvention Admission, Fees to Increase in 2020
•
5G Early Adopters Show Solid Growth
• AMSAT CW Day is January 1
12/30/2019
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Mid-Band Spectrum Finally Inches to U.S. Market in 2020
•
Broadcom Looking to Sell Its RF Business Unit for $10B
•
Record Year for Fab Additions for 2020
• Dell's Jeff Clarke Looks to 2020 and the 'Next Data Decade'
• Huber+Suhner Completes Acquisition of BKtel Group
12/27/2019
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5G Acceleration to Reduce Cellular Carbon by 0.5B Tonnes
• France Launches Procedure for
Assigning 5G Frequency Licenses
• 19 in 2019:
Highlights from Design News
• Researchers Crack
Newton's Elusive 3-Body Problem
(well, almost)
• Ofcom Reviews Connected Home
12/26/2019
• Amazon, Apple, Google, the Zigbee Alliance
Develop New Smart Home Standard
• FCC's Round 17
Auction of mmWave Spectrum Hit $3B in Bids
(subscribers pay the bill, of course)
•
Analog Devices Sues Xilinx for Patent Infringement
•
CAMSAT CAS-6 Amateur Radio Satellite Launched Successfully
• 5 Pivotal Events in AI Chips in 2019
12/25/2019
• Roanoke Division Director Interviews
Oldest U.S. Radio Amateur
•
RF Signal Generator Market to Grow at 2% CAGR from 2019
to 2023
• Senate Commerce Committee OKs
C-Band Auction Bill
•
6 UK Cities Get the 5G Switch-on from EE
•
Chinese Operators Dominating Worldwide IoT Market
12/24/2019
• Apple and Samsung
Sued for Exceeding Authorized RF Radiation Levels
•
5G Heads into 2020 with 200 Announced Devices, 56 Commercial
Launches
•
NTT's MIST Subsea Cable to Connect Singapore, Myanmar,
India
• How
Viasat Changes the Satellite Game
•
Broadband Satellite to Connect Pacific Islands Launched
on SpaceX Rocket
12/23/2019
•
Christmas Carols to be Broadcast on
HF from Antarctica
• FCC Drives
5.9 GHz Proposal for C-V2X, Wi-Fi Use
• Ofcom to
Ban Sale of Locked Mobile Handsets
• With or Without Huawei?
German Coalition Delays 5G Rollout
•
China's Tech Ban Could Have Grave Long-Term Consequences
•
Elon Musk to Speak at SATELLITE 2020 Keynote
12/20/2019
• FCC Formally Adopts
Proposals to Remove Amateur 3 GHz Band
•
Tariff Reprieve Granted for Consumer Electronics
•
Samsung Breaks into Canadian Market with 5G, LTE-A
•
Bar Code Lead Developer George Laurer, K4HZE, SK
•
Iridium Extreme 9575 Satellite Phone
(yep, Iridium is still operational)
12/19/2019
• AztechSat-1
CubeSat to Demonstrate Intra-Satellite Communication
• Apple Has "Deep Concerns"
Ex-Employees Will Flee to China
• Oracle's
OpenWorld Moving out of San Francisco Due to Expense,
Garbage Everywhere
• Apple Feature Forces
Change in Online Ad Industry
(doesn't affect
RF Cafe advertisers)
• U.S. House Passes
$738B National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
12/18/2019
•
2G / 3G Sunset: Managing a Real Life Case Study
• WBA
Wi-Fi 6 Trial in Hostile Wi-Fi Environment Deemed a
Success
•
Who's Hiring Engineers? Who's Firing Them?
• How the Army Is
Girding for Electronic Warfare
• Momentous View on the
Birth of Photoelectrons
12/17/2019
•
ESA Calling Radio Amateurs: Help Find OPS-SAT!
• Q3
SEMI Billings up 12% Sequentially
• Amazon Makes
Quantum Computing Accessible As a Service
• The Google Guys: Retiring at 46
•
Deutsche Telekom to End 2019 with 450 5G Sites, Pauses
5G Deals
12/16/2019
•
FCC to Ditch Flawed Mobility Fund II over Unreliable
4G LTE Coverage Maps
•
Huawei Elects Canadian Courtesy over U.S. Aggression
•
Unemployment Rate Hits Historic Low
•
Qualcomm Has Big Plans for 5G in 2020
•
Samsung Galaxy S11 May Offer 8K Video Recording
12/13/2019
•
ARRL Asks FCC to Dismiss Petition Seeking Declaratory
Ruling on Encoded Message Rule
• AI and Engineering Education
• EU Digital Czar to Probe
Facebook and Google Data Wrangling
• Peculiar 'Normal' Phase of High-Temperature Superconductors
•
Huawei Faces Online Storm in China over Employee Treatment
12/12/2019
• FCC Amending
Amateur Radio RF Exposure Safety Rules ***
•
Page and Brin Officially Step Away from Google Management
• How
Quantum Tech Puts the World's Data at Risk
• Toward More Efficient
Computing with Magnetic Waves
• T-Mobile U.S. Turns up
Nationwide 5G on 600 MHz
12/11/2019
• Russia to Create New
Radar Field Against Cruise Missiles
•
5G and IoT lead Telco Transformation Drive
•
Huawei to Sue over FCC Restrictions on USF Spending
• Novel
Material Switches Between Conducting and Insulating
States
•
DSS Used on Live 5G Call Between Switzerland, Australia
12/10/2019
• Huawei to
Shift Research Center from U.S. to Canada
•
China Mandates Face Scans for People Buying Mobile Phones
• Rakuten's Tareq Amin Most
Powerful Person in Wireless Tech for 2019
• The Race to Exascale at Supercomputer 2019
• Moortec IP in
Radar-on-Chip Device
12/9/2019
• ARRL's 12 Days of Deals Start on Monday
•
Ericsson Holds Lead over Huawei in Mobile Core Market
•
Antimony Could Replace Silicon in Next-Gen Processors
•
Corporate Debt Nears Record $10T
• FCC Settles 911 Outage Incidents
12/6/2019
• Old
3G Battle Shifts to 5G Struggle
• Chinese Brands to Take
60% of 5G Handset Market in 2020
•
Software-Defined Satellite Market to Grow >3x over
Next 10 Years
• Audi to Spend
€12B to Electrify Its Vehicle Lineup
•
Future Car Design for an Aging Population
12/5/2019
• Australia Using HD Cams to
Detect Drivers Using Cellphones
• YOTA Month Expanding into the Americas
•
5G Could Reach 65% of World's Population by 2025
•
R&D Spend Is Increasing in UK
• U.S. Army Using Positioning Solutions for
GPS Denied Environments
12/4/2019
•
Meteorologists Concerned over 5G Bandwidth Allocation
•
Nokia Reckons It Doesn't Need a COO Anymore
•
Demystifying 5G - It's Real and It's Here
• Ultrafast
Quantum Simulations: A New Twist
• EU Propose Huge Underground
Gravitational-Wave Laboratory
12/3/2019
•
India Disbands Committee After Failing to Deliver Telecoms
Bailout
•
Record-Setting Transistor
• Audi to Slash 9,500 Jobs in Germany by 2025
• China Launches
Satellite Service Platform
•
Square Kilometre Antenna Array Hit by €250M Shortfall
12/2/2019
• France Won't
Block Huawei from Its 5G Network
•
Autonomous Balloons to Bring Internet to Rural Peru
• Satellite Companies Suffer
Setback in C-Band Plan
• China Launches 2 More
Beidou Navigation Satellites
(SinoGPS)
• CERN to Announce
1-Year Delay to Large Hadron Collider Upgrade
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