After seeing record test and measurement sales in its first fiscal quarter of 2020, EXFO is reporting that the same period in 2021 tougher: Test sales were down 9.8% compared …
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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Qualcomm Technologies has agreed to buy high-performance silicon start-up Nuvia for about $1.4 billion, in a move that Qualcomm says will deliver “step-function improvements in CPU performance and power efficiency …
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Nokia, Google Cloud strike deal to develop cloud-native 5G compute, network edge
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillNokia and Google Cloud have put together a global strategic partnership aimed at supporting telecom providers’ compute needs for 5G in both the core and the network edge. The two …
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#TBT: Carriers’ content challenges; Big displays mean big costs; SDN spending set to surge … this week in 2014
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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2020 was a tough year for humans — and for networks. As daily lives were interrupted and people stayed home rather than travel or gather for work, school or entertainment, …
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Carriers won’t get more time to meet vertical location, or z-axis, accuracy requirements for cellular devices that are set to take effect in April. The Federal Communications has rejected a …
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Transportation Department unveils plan for autonomous vehicle integration
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe U.S. Department of Transportation has laid out a comprehensive plan for the continued development and integration of autonomous vehicles into the U.S. transportation system — including those which rely …
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After 71 rounds and nearly $80.7 billion in bids raised, the C Band auction bidding is slowing, with prices settled for most of the licenses and fewer than 25 license …
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Test and Measurement: RootMetrics data supports remote learning in Texas
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillWhen school officials in Harris County, Texas sought to purchase wireless air cards to enable thousands of students to do remote learning, they made their purchase decisions in part based …
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EXFO will supply optical test heads and test access switching for Openreach’s Full Fibre initiative in the U.K., under which the network provider has committed to building out millions of …
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#TBT: Carriers launch LTE markets; Small cells, big dreams; Broadcom debuts 802.11ac chips … this week in 2012
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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Program will reimburse companies for discounts to low-income customers for broadband services and devices Congress created a $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit Program aimed at helping more low-income customers get …
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After 55 rounds of bidding, the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of midband satellite spectrum has raised about $78.5 billion in bids. Prices are slowly settling for most of the licenses …
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Dominion Energy’s Virginia subsidiary has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to test a private LTE network at 900 MHz. According to documents filed with the FCC, the power …
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FirstNet Authority calls Nashville bombing an “extraordinary attack on an important node of the nation’s communications infrastructure” AT&T says that it has largely completed the initial recovery and restoration of …
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After 45 rounds that have raised $69.8 billion in bids from a field of 57 qualified bidders, the C Band auction is taking a break for the holidays. The auction …
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The Federal Communications Commission is increasing the number of daily rounds in the C Band auction from four to five and cutting the round-duration to just 30 minutes each, angling …
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Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz supports D-Band antenna testing for ‘6G’, automotive systems
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillRohde & Schwarz’s test solutions are supporting D-Band testing in partnership with Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP), looking at the potential for the airwaves’ use in future mobile communications …
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Millimeter wave spectrum is already in use in 5G networks in the U.S., and is expected to see wider use around the world in the coming years. According to a …
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#TBT: FCC adopts net neutrality rules; AT&T buys FloTV spectrum; OpEx drives outsourcing … this week in 2010
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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Improved rural broadband correlates with improved farm productivity: FCC report
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillBetter rural broadband availability has “significant positive impacts on crop yields and other farm production metrics,” the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Economics and Analytics found in a new working …
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The telecom sector has not been hit as hard as others by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, and mobile operators in some hard-hit countries are even flourishing as …
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AT&T has seen significant shifts in demand due to the global pandemic, and it is looking to build a converged, virtualized fiber-based network that serves multiple customer segments while overlaying …
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After 17 rounds, the C Band auction has brought in more than $7.9 billion, as the field of 57 bidders continues to compete for the 280 megahertz of midband spectrum …
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The Telecom Infra Project performed testing last year specifically looking at penetration losses in indoor environments at 28 GHz and 60 GHz. TIP’s testing gives some insights into the challenge …
