INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
combined with data from sensors on satellites, vehicles, buildings, aircraft and other objects, is emerging from stealth today with the
launch of its first publicly available product, a platform providing insights on wireless signal and quality covering a range of wireless
Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, ValueStream Ventures and Intellectus Partners.The area of measuring wireless spectrum and figuring out
of our time, with more than 5 billion mobile users on the planet (out of 7.5 billion people) today and the proportion continuing to grow
Insight board member, in a statement
use of this scarce commodity
own the radio towers, and tend to focus on more narrow bands of spectrum and technologies.The rise of 5G and other wireless technologies,
however, has come with a completely new playing field and set of challenges from the industry.Essentially, we are now in a market where
potential set of new technologies
And we have a new breed of companies building services that need to have close knowledge of how networks are working to make sure they
remain up and reliable.Mengwasser said Aurora is currently one of the few trying to tackle this opportunity by developing a network that is
measuring multiples kinds of spectrum simultaneously, and aims to provide that information not just to telcos (some of which have been
working with Aurora while still in stealth) but the others kinds of application and service developers that are building businesses based on
are building delivery networks: Aurora has been working with at least one while in stealth to help develop a service, Mengwasser said,
although he declined to say which one
(He also, incidentally, specifically declined to say whether the company had talked with Amazon.)5G is a particularly tricky area of mobile
