Anritsu and fellow test equipment company ETS-Lindgren have collaborated on a new Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) testing solution, which combines Anritsu’s MT8821C Radio Communication Analyzer with ETS-Lindgren’s EMQuest antenna measurement software and supports …
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.
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Liberty started investing in Formula E a decade ago when the race series first emerged Telecom provider Liberty Global is taking a majority stake in electric car racing series Formula …
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper expects to start service demonstrations with Vrio and others later this year Satellite TV operator Vrio has announced that it plans to use Amazon’s Project Kuiper Low-Earth …
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CBRS sharing system to be tweaked, enable more uninterrupted spectrum access
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe changes would expand access by changing up the aggregate interference model used to determine sharing Changes are coming to the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service band at 3.5 GHz, …
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EchoStar, which merged with Dish, wants a national spectrum screen of 25% Every other year, the Federal Communications Commission asks for input on the state of competition in the domestic …
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Mavenir claims that 40% operational efficiency can be reached using the new AI solution Network infrastructure provider Mavenir developed an artificial intelligence “operations co-pilot” with Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, …
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There have been ‘great strides’ in closing the digital divide, NTIA says, but wide variations in who is connected remain The numbers of United States internet users increased by about …
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—While in-building coverage for cellular and public safety Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems is a challenge across building use types, it is a particularly urgent one in schools. At …
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Drone company DJI says that for the first time, drones have been used to safely deliver equipment to climbers on Mount Everest and remove trash from the mountain. DJI completed …
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The ‘secret sauce’ for 5G monetization: FWA is reshaping markets, Opensignal says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillHigh-penetration FWA areas actually have better performance than low-penetration FWA areas, Opensignal found 5G Fixed Wireless Access has “reshaped” the broadband market in the United States, moving into mainstream adoption …
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Timing and synchronization are crucial to customer experience, because timing & sync errors in 5G TDD networks can severely degrade a site’s ability to provide consistent call quality and good …
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13 new satellites support its direct-to-cellular service with T-Mobile US On the 14th anniversary of its Falcon 9 rocket’s first launch, Starlink put up 20 new satellites, 13 of which …
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Enterprises report that one of their top reasons for considering and implementing private networks is in pursuit of better network reliability. But how do you achieve the expected level of …
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EchoStar, Mavenir and Qualcomm worked together to test 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) on the Boost Mobile Network, in a demonstration that the partners said was the first validation of 5G …
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Telecommunication networks are fundamentally about sending and receiving signals accurately. In order for the network to accurately juggle the complex transmission and reception of data from many devices in various …
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Viavi Solutions launched new UTC timing services this week, which rely on L-Band and Ku-Band satellite signals but operate “completely independently” of traditional GPS and GNSS. The new altGNNS GEO …
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Smartphones offer a path to mainstream mobile augmented reality, Ericsson report says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillConsumers dislike current device options and worry about social perception and privacy when it comes to XR, according to a report from Ericsson Consumer Lab Options and adoption of augmented, …
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AST SpaceMobile, Verizon strike deal for direct-to-cellular using 850 MHz
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillVerizon makes a $100 million commitment to AST AST SpaceMobile has followed up a commercialization announcement with AT&T with the news today that the satellite company has struck a deal …
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In modern networks, timing and synchronization are taking on increasing importance for several reasons: The widespread deployment of Time-Division Duplexing (TDD) midband spectrum for 5G, and because increasingly exact coordination …
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T-Mobile US to buy UScellular’s wireless operations, some spectrum for $4.4 billion
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillUScellular will become a wireless infrastructure company, retainings its tower assets and about 70% of its spectrum T-Mobile US plans to buy UScellular’s wireless operations and about 30% of the …
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Keysight sees ‘pockets of growth and stability’, including AI data centers
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillTest company beat its own guidance but numbers were generally down year-on-year Keysight Technologies beat its own guidance for its fiscal second quarter and expects revenues to be stable with …
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Test and Measurement: Viavi, Rohde & Schwarz expand joint test solutions with focus on O-RAN, NTN
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillTest equipment companies Rohde & Schwarz and Viavi Solutions are expanding the joint solutions offered via their two-year-old collaboration on joint lab testing solutions. In particular, they are focusing on …
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Verizon outperforms T-Mobile US’ home broadband on a technology-agnostic basis: Opensignal Of the five internet service providers with the most extensive service footprints, Comcast’s Xfinity service wins in consistent broadband …
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A new NPRM from the FCC will propose bringing rules on test lab certification in line with federal law on secure networks The Federal Communications Commission will vote at its …
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Request for comment focuses on non-spectrum aspects of 6G development and timing The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has kicked off a formal public comment period in which it …
