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Tara Neal

Tara Neal

Executive Editor and Telecoms Strategist at The Fast Mode | 5G | IoT/M2M | Telecom Strategy | Mobile Service Innovations 

Tara Neal heads the strategy & editorial unit at The Fast Mode, focusing on latest technologies such as gigabit broadband, 5G, cloud-native networking, edge computing, virtualization, software-defined networking and network automation as well as broader telco segments such as IoT/M2M, CX, OTT services and network security. Tara holds a First Class Honours in BSc Accounting and Finance from The London School of Economics, UK and is a CFA charterholder from the CFA Institute, United States. Tara has over 22 years of experience in technology and business strategy, and has earlier served as project director for technology and economic development projects in various management consulting firms.

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Ericsson, Audi to Test Latency-critical Application using 5G Connected Production Robots

Friday, 03 August 2018 03:03
Ericsson and Audi announced plans to pioneer the use of 5G technology for automotive production. At Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany, the two companies agreed…

Billing in the 5G Era: Driving Multi-Play Strategies for Digital Service Providers

Tuesday, 31 July 2018 06:50
Kirill Rechter is the Chief Executive Officer of LogNet Billing. He is an expert in designing and implementing modern billing solutions for prominent telecommunications and…

'Closest-to-Reality' 5G Use Case Testing to Commence in Greater Paris Region

Wednesday, 25 July 2018 01:02
Orange announced that Paris, Châtillon and Linas-Montlhéry will be the next zones for its 5G tests, adding to Lille, Douai and Marseille where the Operator…

Verizon Deploys 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM LTE-A in 1100 Markets

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 02:11
Verizon said it will continue to aggressively deploy the latest 4G LTE Advanced technologies that provide significantly faster peak data speeds and capacity for customers.…

Operators to Face Increasing Competition from SigFox and LoRa, says ABI Research

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 02:39
The highly competitive and fragmented European cellular Machine to Machine (M2M) market will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, according to a new report…

Telstra, Ericsson and Intel Complete E2E Data Call on 5G NSA Commercial Network

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 05:55
Telstra, Ericsson and Intel recently completed the first end-to-end 5G non-standalone (NSA) 3GPP data call on a commercial mobile network. The call is the of…

Ericsson, Intel Demo 5G NR Data Call (NSA) using Commercial Gears

Tuesday, 10 July 2018 01:54
Ericsson and Intel in collaboration with early-moving 5G service providers have completed an end-to-end, non-standalone(NSA) 5G NR data call on the 3.5GHz band. This latest…

Axiata, PLDT, Telin, Turkcell, Viettel and Zain Join SoftBank-backed Telecom Blockchain Consortium

Monday, 09 July 2018 04:06
A group of ASEAN and South Asian operators - Axiata Group, PLDT, Telin, Turkcell, Viettel and Zain - has joined the Carrier Blockchain Study Group…

China Mobile, Tencent, and Huawei Complete Verification of 5G Network Slicing using AR Games

Thursday, 05 July 2018 01:26
China Mobile, Tencent and Huawei have jointly completed the verification of 5G network slicing at the recent Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, China. The verification…