Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - December 2018

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12/31/2018

• AT&T to Begin Upgrading Existing LTE Phones to '5G E'

Huawei CEO Hits Back at Security Claims

Optical Transceiver Market Grows 8% YoY

• Apple's Self-Destructive Qualcomm, China Strategies

• NASA Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Historic New Year's Flyby

12/28/2018

• Game's On: Telecom Predictions for 2019

AT&T's New Tower Deals Cut Rent Costs in Half

• U.S. Considers New Restrictions on Chinese Students

Businesses "Watching in Horror" as No-Deal Brexit Risk Rises

• An Ode to Christmas: The Twelve Months of Telco

12/27/2018

Aviation Community Worries About Possible Effects of 5G in C-Band

• GSMA: mmWave Spectrum Will Account for 25% of 5G's Value

• How Huawei Took over the World

• 1,086 Points Highest 1-Day Gain in DOW History

• U.S. Christmas Sales Strongest in Years

12/26/2018

Global Electronic Industry Slowing Coupled with Geopolitical Strife

• Australian Telco Telstra Secures Early Access to 5G Spectrum

Directed Energy, Particle Beam, Lasers are Future of Defense

• 6 Devices Being Replaced by Digital Technologies

• Intel Takes Integrated Graphics to a Trillion Operations Per Second

12/25/2018

Slowing Worldwide GDP Growth to Hit Semi Market

Private LTE Market Continues Booming

• Keysight Submits 1st 5G-New Radio Conformance Test Case to 3GPP for Certification

• Semi Equipment Sales Forecast: $62B in 2018 a New Record

Outlook for Unlicensed Spectrum and 5G NR?

12/24/2018

"Hunt for Santa Claus" Event Gets Under Way on December 21

2019 Predictions Aerospace & Defense After-Sales Service

Global Smartphone Shipments Will Rebound in 2019

• India Preps Military Communications Satellite for Launch (cool photo)

• Gallium Oxide as Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor

12/21/2018

• Burnout, Stress Lead Companies to Try 4-Day Work Week

Ofcom to Auction More 5G Spectrum in 2019

• AT&T to Launch Mobile 5G in 12 Cities on Friday

• 7 Cloud Predictions for 2019

• Powering up Gallium Oxide MOSFETs

12/20/2018

• Chip Manufacturing Equipment Market Goes into Reverse

• Semi Equipment Sales Forecast: $62B in 2018 a New Record

• AT&T 5G Hotspot Now Available in Some U.S. Cities

Student Debt Reaches Record $1.465T (surprised? gov't took it over in 2010)

Radio Amateurs in Turkey Gain Access to 2 Bands

12/19/2018

Japan to Ban Chinese Vendors from Government Contracts

Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast for 1st Time

•  Neil Carleton, VE3NCE, Named to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame

Silicon Valley Inquisition Gathers Pace

End of the Line for Microsoft Edge? (hopefully)

12/18/2018

• Qorvo Intros 5G Industry's 1st 28 GHz GaN Front End Module

• China Issues Spectrum for Nationwide 5G Trials

FCC to Investigate Mobility Fund Coverage Mapping

Army of Robots Coming to the Factory Floor

• Bug Forces Alphabet to Expedite Google+ API Shutdown

12/17/2018

• Australian Carriers Secure 5G Spectrum in the 3.6 GHz Band

• Qualcomm Looks to Bring 5G to PCs in 2019

Heaviest TV Viewers vs. Heaviest Radio Listeners

• Ku-Band HTS Satellites Provide Unprecedented SATCOM Network Solutions

• With Jailed CFO, Huawei's Future Darkens

12/14/2018

Germany's Federal Network Agency Catches Flak for 5G Rules

Wireless Industry Ad Spending Rises in November

Verizon Says Goodbye to Nearly 7% of Workers

• FCC Warns Against Fishing Net Buoys That Use RF

• NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

12/13/2018

• Panasonic Argues for Preserving Entire 5.9 GHz Band for Auto Safety Services

• 5G Would Add a New Dimension to Automotive V2X

China Bans Some iPhone Models at Request of Qualcomm

Using Terahertz Band to Provide Low Cost, High-Speed Connectivity

• NPL Teams up with Manchester Graphene Centre

12/12/2018

American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Heading Home

• Verizon to Double 5G Home Speeds in 6 Months

• Qualcomm and Nokia Conduct 5G-NR mmWave and Sub-6 GHz OTA Interoperability Test Calls

• 2018 QST Antenna Design Competition Winners Announced

FCC Tells LED Sign Marketers to Abide by Statutes and Rules

12/11/2018

China Summons U.S. Envoy over Huawei CFO

• Deployment of Small Cells to Grow by 68% Annually

WSTS Bumps up Chip Sales Forecast

• Verizon, Samsung Promise 5G Smartphone for Next Year

AMSAT's Fox-1Cliff Amateur Radio CubeSat Launched Successfully

12/10/2018

• Another Tech Company CEO Bites the Misconduct Dust

Massive Satellite Launch Signals Start of IoT Revolution

• Samsung, Qualcomm & Verizon Complete 1.7 Gbps 5G Data Transmission at 28 GHz

• Worldwide Semi Equipment Billings Drop to $15.8B in Q3 2018

• 2 New Ham Astronauts Join ISS Crew

12/7/2018

• R&S & Huawei Conduct 5G V2X Latency Measurements in Moving Vehicles

28 GHz Auction Moves Past $500M Mark

• Consumers Still Turn to TV for News

BT Set to Remove Huawei Kit from Its 4G Network Core

Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

12/6/2018

• EU Passed New Telecom Rules to Promote 5G

Huawei to Work with New Zealand Regulators on 5G Fears

UK Will Not Use EU's Galileo for Defence

ZTE May Be in Trouble with the U.S. Yet Again

• Semiconductor Industry Veterans See Old Order Crumbling

12/5/2018

Semiconductor Market Rally May Be Over

• Huawei's Problems Make $5B Opportunity for Ericsson, Nokia, et al

• BAE Systems to Develop Machine Learning Algorithms to Decode RF Signals

Can Light Replace RF in Some IoT Applications?

63% of Non-Citizens on Welfare, 4.6M Households (while you & I pay for them -outrageous!)

12/4/2018

• IEEE Standard Addresses Network-Based Coexistence for Lightly Licensed Devices

JOTA Reports 36% Growth in Boy Scout Participation

• GOP Has Stealth Bill to Outsource College Graduate Jobs (the Swamp lives on)

Q3 Chip Sales Reach Record $129B

• Mars InSight Mission Shows That CubeSats Can Relay Messages from Deep Space

12/3/2018

• Your Electric Car Position, Usage Data Going to China & Other Governments

• Ofcom Wants "Competing, Nationwide Fibre Networks"

Santa's Radio Club Special Event Set for December 1–8

• Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin Make Downlinking Satellite Data Easier

• Silicon Contamination Hinders Commercial Impact of Graphene