5greport

When cellphones first started to grow in popularity in the late 1980s, it wasn’t clear if the network that powered calls would center on a terrestrial or satellite service. Neither system…

Making calls from the wilderness. Sending photos from the most remote corners of the globe. And doing it all from your cellphone.That is the promise of the satellite-based future. But don’t…

The stakes are high for companies building satellite networks, but the…

The decades-old satellite industry is setting its sights on a target that until lately looked unreachable: the everyday smartphone.Better technology has convinced a who’s-who of aerospace…

It was one of 5G’s big selling points: millions of always-connected internet-of-things devices exchanging data wirelessly at lightning speed, revolutionizing the portability of everything…

In South Korea, long renowned for its ultrafast internet speeds, consumers and businesses alike are diving into a 5G-enabled future. In a country where 5G networks are more widely available…

These days, everything from student term papers to company personnel information lives in the cloud, the big computer farms operated by the likes of Amazon.com Inc.…

Once a glimmer in the eyes of executives from Shenzhen to Silicon Valley, 5G now dominates a broad swath of the global supply chain—and the competition to control different parts of it is…

Stanford University economics professor Paul Milgrom has been at the forefront of auction theory for nearly three decades, studying auction design and bidder…

The deployment of superfast 5G networks is supposed to usher in a new era for so much more than the smartphone—everything from enhanced virtual-reality videogames to remote heart surgery.…