Wireless Watch 631: LTE R14 agenda

• Context awareness at heart of 3GPP’s new R14 program, and of 5G 2
• As industry mourns Intel’s Grove, it turns away from processors 8
• Hue, not 3, could be Hutchison’s crown jewel as MNO model transforms 14

• As auction looms, 600 MHz will be less important than mmWave to USA 22
• Apple guts the middle ground and targets Asia with iPhone SE 27
• Google puts Boston Dynamics up for sale, robotics project in doubt 29
• Are operators ready to deploy cloud-based BSS? 30
• Sony to bring PlayStation content to rival smartphones 32

Start-Up Watch:
Blue Danube promises tenfold LTE boost with beamforming 33

IoT Watch:
DT expands smart home platform outside its group with KPN deal; Altice adds Sig-fox deal to France’s LPWAN jigsaw 34

Standards Watch:
Cypress claims 400m range for new Bluetooth module 36

Spectrum Watch:
Indian issues white spaces licences, breaking long ties to auctions 37

IPR Watch:
US Supreme Court will take on the Samsung-Apple patent battle 38

WiFi Watch:
Ericsson and Arqiva: two faces of managed WiFi services 40

Operator Watch:
China Mobile extends 4G lead, but faces critical year 41