Telus partners to build 5G lab to improve indoor wireless performance

MONTREAL – Telus announced Wednesday that is has signed an agreement to develop a 5G laboratory in Montreal to provide an incubator for technologies utilizing the next-generation mobile wireless networks. The Vancouver-based telecom partnered with the school Ecole de Technologie Superieure, which will be the home of the lab, and with iBwave, a software developer that deploys indoor wireless networks. The project will collect data on a building’s characteristics into a single 3D digital representation to “help improve collaboration between the various stakeholders, reduce errors and facilitate decision-making,” a press release said. The idea is to optimize network performance in...