Wireless Watch 652 September 5: Nokia's 4.9G

Key Issues:

• Nokia’s 4.9G races Ericsson’s almost-5G, yet the finishing line is a mirage 2
• iPhone looms, but Apple has nothing to say on VR, the key theme at IFA 8

Comment:

• Dell-EMC deal to close this week, pitching at carriers and the IoT 13
• Europe’s lower UHF and US’s 3.5 GHz – new candidates for LTE SDL 16
• Facebook’s African expansion hits delay with SpaceX explosion 18
• Google cancels Ara – disrupting the handset world order is just too tough 20
• Regulators given green light on EU net neutrality rules 21
• WiFi roaming gathers pace in US and beyond 23
• Apple may repatriate cash to US following tax row in Ireland 25

Arqiva plans to offload UK WiFi assets to Virgin Media 26

IoT Watch:

Google-backed Thread increases its power with EEBus deal 27

Standards Watch:

Sigma opens Z-Wave, Huawei joins ZigBee Alliance 29

WiFi Watch:

Qualcomm gets second US design win for three-way WiFi combo 31

Devices and Components:

In iPhone week, Samsung’s Note 7 recall couldn’t come at a worse time 32