Wireless Watch 665: Chip giants battle for IoT

Key Issues:

• Qualcomm and Intel court Amazon in their battle for the IoT 2
• A disruptive Indian operator at last – Reliance Jio starts to show its colors 11

Comment:

• Russia’s bid for mobile self-sufficiency may be the savior of Sailfish 17
• Contrasting mobile fortunes for former soulmates Nokia and Microsoft 20
• Sky Mobile more worrying to BT than Ofcom’s Openreach ruling 23
• ZTE proposes amalgamation of fog computing and MEC 26

M&A Watch:

US analysts raise spectre of a Verizon-Comcast merger 27

5G Watch:

Japanese trials see antenna technologies pushed to limit for 28 GHz 28

IoT Watch:

Nokia and HPE extend partnership for IoT and smart city 30

Mobile Content and Applications:

AT&T DirecTV Now tipped to reach 1m customers “in short order” 31

Devices and Components:

Onyx Connect becomes Africa’s first local smartphone manufacturer 33