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
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