8/31/2020
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FCC Proposes to Reinstate Amateur Radio Service Fees
• Q1 2020 Global Cellular
IoT Module Shipments Decline 28%
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Fast and Steep Recovery at TSMC
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TI Names New COO
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Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight
8/28/2020
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16.7% YoY Decline for Smartphones in Q2
• U.S. Space Force Tests
New Anti-Jamming Capability
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Carbon-Nanotube "Forest" Yields Flexible Supercapacitors
• Verizon Fights for
Timely C-Band Transition
• No Limit Yet for
Carbon Nanotube Fibers
8/27/2020
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Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Projected to Grow Dramatically
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Small Cell 5G Network Market >$2.4 Billion by 2025
• Rethinking
Electronic Product Design
• U.S. Clamps down on
Huawei's Efforts to Circumvent Export Rules
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No Roaming Charges Between Central African Countries in 2021
8/26/2020
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Hurricane Watch Net Firms up Wednesday Activation Plans
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NB-IoT Chipset Market to Be Worth $2.5B by 2025
•
Next
Steps for 5G Survey Report
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Huawei Building 45 nm Fab
• UK
Ultra Broadband Delivers 178 Tbps
8/25/2020
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5G Mast Vandals Sprayed by SmartWater's Forensic Frap
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New Contest for Portable Stations to Debut in October
•
Backup GPS Needed to Protect the U.S. and Spur Innovation
• What
Public Safety Users Are Saying About Mobile Device Use
• Calculating
Properties
of Quantum Materials
8/24/2020
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Electronics Supply Chains Splitting Between China and U.S.
• Connected Devices Will Generate
79 Zettabytes of Data by 2025
• 5G Rollout Includes
Challenges to Supply Chain
• Lockheed Martin & USC Build
Smart CubeSats
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Shorter Call Signs Popular with Australian Foundation Licensees
8/21/2020
• Private Networks Get Boost from
FCC Ruling on 900 MHz Band
• Amazon
Alexa Bug Exposed Voice Data (again)
• October 23 is NASA's Target Date for
1st Operational Crew Dragon Launch
• Cayman Islands Considers
New Subsea Cable
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Zuckerberg Is Least Trusted Big Tech CEO
8/20/2020
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Courts Side with FCC in Red Tape Cutting Plan
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China Launches Beidou GPS Equivalent
• IARU Announces
HF Digital Mode Band Plan Review
• Forgery-Proof
Liquid Crystal Material Developed
• White House Announces
100 MHz of Additional Mid-Band for 5G
8/19/2020
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Court Rules in Favor of FCC in Small Cell Case
• Army Wants to
Reduce Electronic Signatures of Command Posts
• CommScope Claims Rosenberger
Infringing on Base Station Antennas Patents
• FCC Updates
Smart Device Speed
Test App
• Cumulus Q2 down
48%
8/18/2020
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Do Engineers Live Longer?
•
Arecibo Observatory Reflector Dish Damaged after Cable Snaps
(ET sabotage to prevent detection)
• Navy Completes 1st Flight Test of New
EW Jamming Pod
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5G Deployments Boost China Towers H1 Financial Results
•
Global Trade Trends to Watch
8/17/2020
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DoD to Share 3450-3550 MHz with 5G Commercial Operations
•
PALs (Priority Access License) Auction: $3B and Counting
•
Wi-Fi
6 Becoming More Like 5G
• NGMN Alliance Publishes Its 2nd
5G White Paper
• UK Celebrates
½-Million
Gbit Broadband Milestone
8/14/2020
•
Top Supply Chain Tech Trends for 2020
• USAF Air Force Holds
EW Exercise with Classified Stealth Drone
• Wuhan Pandemic Widens
Engineering Gender Gap Amongst Young People
•
Apple Finds Itself on Wrong Side of Russia's Competition Rules
•
Czech Spectrum Auction Leaves Space for New Players
8/13/2020
• Digital Bits Soon to
Outnumber
Atoms on Earth
• U.S. Frees More Midband Spectrum as
C-Band Auction Falls Short
• FCC Commissioner O'Rielly's
Renomination on Hold Due to Ligado
•
Nokia's New CEO Working on Setting Strategy in "Dream Job"
• Qualcomm Seeks License to
Sell 5G Chips to Huawei
8/12/2020
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CBRS Auction Surpasses $1B Threshold
•
Tax Holiday for China's 28nm Manufacturers
•
Tesla Sets 5-1 Stock Split as Stock Soars
• Strategies to
Prevent Component Shortages During a Crisis
• IEEE:
5G
Just Got Weird
8/11/2020
• The New Tech Cold
War
• FCC Approves
C-Band Auction Procedures
• June
Semi Sales up 5.1% YoY
• NSA Warns Mobile Devices Can
Expose User Locations to Adversaries
• European Commission
Probes Google's Fitbit Acquisition
8/10/2020
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Global E-Waste Increases 21% in Last 5 Years (even
eco-warriors won't give up stuff)
•
Engineers More Harried, But Still Happy with Their Jobs
• Driverless
Guru Goes to Jail
• China's Hunan to Reach
22,000 5G Base Stations by End-2020
•
UK Broadband Gets a Boost in £900mn Government Project
8/7/2020
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Subsea Cable Linking Chile to Australia Snubs Chinese Connection
• USAF
Experimental Navigation Satellite Cleared for Fabrication
• Amazon Gets
FCC Approval for Project Kuiper Satellite Constellation
•
Semiconductor Rebound Around the Next Corner?
•
Micro/Mini-LED Revenue to Reach $4.2B in 2024
8/6/2020
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Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei Dominance Fading
• T-Mobile Claims
World's 1st for 5G Standalone Deployment
• Wuhan Virus Blamed for
15.7% YoY Smartphone Shipments Decline
• White House Partnership to
Boost Quantum Science Education
• Telstra
5G to Cover 75% of Aussie Population by June 2021
8/5/2020
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GaAs RF Front End Revenue Falls by 3.8% in 2020
•
Korean Carriers to Share 5G Infra in Small Towns
• Use This
AI to Find Your Next Engineering Gig
• Myth Debunked:
Young People Do Listen to Radio
•
Beijing Installs 5,135 5G Base Stations in H1
8/4/2020
•
Wi-Fi Alliance Mandates WPA3 for Device Certification
•
Samsung Q2 Profits up 26%
•
China Chips Lag Government Targets
• AirFuel Alliance Invites Participation in
Global RF Wireless Charging Standard
•
TVA CEO Highest Paid Federal Employee @$8M/yr - Replacing Americans w/H1B
8/3/2020
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5G Smartphone Production to Exceed 200M Units in 2020
•
BAE Systems Acquires Raytheon's Military GPS for $1.9B
(another U.S. business gone)
• FCC Shuts Down
Boston Area Pirate Radio Stations
•
Huawei Leads in Smartphone Shipments for 1st Time
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Big Tech into Advocacy Overdrive from Trump Immigration Order
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