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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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The Federal Communications Commission is considering opening up a “formal conversation” on how it can support development and deployment of Open Radio Access Network technology. At the commission’s March 17 …
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The Federal Communications Commission is considering an auction of additional midband airwaves as soon as October of this year, for 100 megahertz of spectrum at 3.45-3.55 GHz. Acting Chairwoman Jessica …
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AT&T says it added nearly 100,000 square miles to FirstNet’s coverage footprint in 2020 FirstNet-AT&T says that the network is supporting more than 2 million connections across the country, with …
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Keysight Technologies has acquired Sanjole, a testing company that specializes in over-the-air network testing that provides insights into device/network interactions and multiple layers of the protocol stack. Details of the …
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Dish Network saw both its revenues and its profits rise sharply in the most recent quarter: Revenues reached $733 million for the fourth quarter of 2020, up from $389 million from the …
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Fastest isn’t necessarily best: SRG puts three 5G networks to an apples-to-apples test
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillSpeed, speed and more speed: So much of the consumer expectations, and industry testing and bragging, are focused on the new heights of speed that 5G can achieve. The question …
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T-Mobile US is putting together a 5G tech incubator in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, continuing the company’s support of a place that was a center for Sprint’s Curiosity IoT and 5G …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun a broad collaboration with the Linux Foundation, hoping to spur open-source development of technologies for use by the U.S. government that include …
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The assignment phase of the C Band auction has ended, officially bringing to a close the highest-grossing spectrum auction in FCC history. The auction kicked off on December 8 with …
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#TBT: GSM on the Net; FCC looks into ‘dead zones’; Nextel buys 900 MHz licenses … this week in 1999
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEditor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …
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DoD looks to Federated Wireless and a private 5G CBRS network to build a smart warehouse
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillAs the Department of Defense continues its exploration of how it will leverage 5G networks, Federated Wireless is heading up a 5G Citizens Broadband Radio Service network implementation in Albany, …
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A new white paper (pdf) from the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance urges the industry to more fully develop multiple paths for operators to move from NonStandalone to Standalone 5G …
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FCC focuses on partners, path forward for Emergency Broadband Benefit program
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe FCC is working on how it will make available $3.2 billion that Congress appropriated to help subsidize broadband costs during the Covid-19 pandemic — but would you believe it …
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Millimeter-wave network equipment company Pivotal CommWare has raised $50 million in new funding that aims to help the company scale and support midband spectrum along with mmWave bands. “This capital …
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Test and Measurement: Sony field-tests mobile next-generation broadcasting to vehicles
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillSony this week detailed the results of field testing of ATSC 3.0 broadcasting to vehicles. ATSC 3.0, or NextGen TV, allows broadcasters to send both audio/video and IP data, enabling …
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5G at the Super Bowl has ‘dramatically improved’ since last year, GWS finds
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe 5G experience at this year’s Super Bowl saw a dramatic improvement over what was available to users last year, according to testing by Global Wireless Solutions. GWS tested the …
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#TBT: AT&T intros PocketNet; Pacific Bell preps for GSM; Bell South sells cellular online … this week in 1997
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEditor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …
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Canadian satellite operator Telesat is joining the battle for low-earth-orbit-based broadband services, announcing today that it has selected a vendor to manufacture the nearly 300 LEO satellites that will form …
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65 operators around the world are investing in Standalone 5G, GSA reports Sixty-one countries around the world have 144 commercial 5G networks as of January 2021, with more on the …
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2020 was a tipping point for 5G, according to a new report from Spirent Communications, when the technology moved out of the lab and into commercial reality even as the …
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Could smartphone usage data reveal voter insights that political polling might not catch? It’s possible, according to GWS. GWS analyzed news consumption on smartphones from an opt-in consumer panel in …
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Elon Musk’s low-earth-orbit satellite-based service, Starlink, plans to provide voice and Lifeline services as well as high-speed broadband services, the company told the Federal Communications Commission. Starlink laid out its …
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Ookla Speedtest is now offering users the ability to directly measure their video streaming experience, providing a new Speedtest that measures max resolution, buffering and loading times. It’s only available …
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Over the new few years, Open RAN worldwide revenues are expected to grow at double-digit rates, according to Dell’Oro Group. The analyst firm forecasts in a new report that cumulative …
