Each year for the past 12 years, the Federal Communications Commission has gathered information from states and territories about their 911 fee collection, distribution and general operations and put it …
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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Ciena sees a year of “outsized revenue growth” ahead Telecom networking company Ciena says that it is taking market share in network infrastructure from embattled Chinese vendor Huawei, primarily in …
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How many 911 calls are wireless? Key stats from the FCC’s 2020 911 fee report (Part 1)
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillStates reported that 72% of 911 calls received in 2019 came from wireless phones—but the FCC thinks it’s probably more Each year for the past 12 years, the Federal Communications …
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Test and Measurement: TNS, Cellusys focus on R&D, testing for 5G roaming and security
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillU.S.-based Transaction Network Services is working with Irish company Cellusys on research, development and testing of roaming and security solutions for 5G networks. The two companies will use TNS’ 5G …
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Spectrum research center funded by the National Science Foundation will focus on spectrum research, workforce development The National Science Foundation, which has funded 5G projects including a set of testbeds …
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Verizon’s LTE urban networks are 80% faster when CBRS is available, Opensignal says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe use of CBRS spectrum in Verizon’s LTE network boosts average speeds by as much as 80% in the urban areas where the carrier has deployed those midband airwaves, according …
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“Mid-band and especially low-band 5G solutions may not be enough to deliver a smooth experience in crowded situations,” RootMetrics says The omicron variant notwithstanding, crowds are gathering once again across …
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Telecom infrastructure provider BAI Communications is expanding in Europe and the U.K. with the acquisition of wireless infrastructure design, installation and management company Vilicom. BAI is headquartered in Toronto and …
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Public sessions to gather stakeholder input will begin next week The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is tasked with turning $65 billion in funding into programs that will make …
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Rohde & Schwarz said this week that it has worked with Vector Informatik to provide a cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) testing solution that enabled automaker Audi to run realistic traffic scenarios …
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Wireless broadband providers optimism is at a record high, Cambium survey finds
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEven before the Biden administration’s massive infrastructure package passed, wireless broadband service providers have been feeling good. Really good. Better than they have in the last few years, according to …
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5G development in the CBRS band has hit a new milestone, with the news that Airspan Networks’ Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) 5G Standalone small cell radio has been approved …
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Private 5G network revenues are still a tiny fraction of the overall revenues in the telecom network market, but activity is on the rise and companies around the world are …
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Dish Network is adding Rakuten Symphony to its Operational Support Systems (OSS) vendor roster, turning to the company and its observability framework (OBF) to collect the telemetry data from all …
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Within six months of the Tracfone deal closing, Verizon must offer Lifeline plans with 5G It’s an early Christmas present, of sorts, for Verizon: The Federal Communications Commission has officially …
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Ericsson will buy Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal Network equipment and services provider Ericsson will acquire enterprise cloud services company Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal, which it touts …
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Amid anticipation for the freshly passed $65 billion in funding for broadband expansion, a new report from CTIA estimates that 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband could serve nearly half of …
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Test and Measurement: Viavi intros ‘three-dimensional’ network monitoring
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillViavi Solutions has released a new version of its Observer network performance and monitoring platform, bringing what it describes as “true three-dimensional network observability” by enabling the platform to provide …
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Reliability of broadband service is the single most important characteristic to consumers and definitely more important than speed, according to a new survey from the Fiber Broadband Assocation. A full …
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Auction now shifts to an assignment phase for individual spectrum blocks The 3.45-3.55 GHz auction of 100 megahertz of midband spectrum has wrapped up its first phase after 151 rounds, …
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Dish, Cisco strike partnership for 5G enterprise services and a deep transport network relationship Dish Wireless will both use Cisco equipment and software as a key part of its 5G …
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Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and aerospace company Airbus have successfully tested a solar-powered stratospheric drone, using it to deliver a data link at a distance of up to 140 kilometers …
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Truly national 5G? It’ll take an extra $36 billion and another 37k sites, CCA report estimates
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillA new estimate from CCA and CostQuest pegs the cost of deploying 5G in places that carriers are unlikely to build out commercially What would it take to cover the …
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Just 27 license-types are still in contention The number of licenses in contention in the 3.45 GHz auction continues to drop and is now down to only 27 license-types. The …
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Test and Measurement: NSF funds new testbed for autonomous robots connected via mmWave
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillFlorida testbed will support ‘networked, cooperating robots’ connected via mmWave Florida Atlantic University has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a first-of-its-kind testbed that …
