There’s no 5G-capable iPhone available yet (although one is expected to be announced as early as next week). But a recent consumer survey conducted by Global Wireless Solutions found that …
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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#TBT: Huawei says it’s fine without the US; Testing Verizon’s 5G TF; 802.11ax gets a makeover … this week in 2018
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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The technologies being deployed in 5G New Radio mean that radio sites are significantly more complex than they were in previous generations of technology. It means, for example, up to …
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Could the original service connecting people and businesses across the United States play a role in furthering the deployment of next-generation 5G connectivity? According to a report from the U.S. …
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DDoS attacks saw “radical change” and record levels in the first half, Netscout says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillNetscout: COVID-19 “added rocket fuel to the growth in DDoS attacks” Cyber threats are shifting rapidly as attackers respond to the changing network conditions driven by the global coronavirus pandemic. …
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With US operators on more equal footing, customer experience is the differentator, Tutela says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill4G is still the dominant force determining users’ network experience, and the quality of that experience is a crucial element of operators’ ability to attract and retain customers. Despite the …
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Test and Measurement: Leadership shifts at Keysight; HQ briefly closed by wildfires
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillKeysight Technologies is making a number of leadership changes, from its CTO and COO to the heads of individual business units. Keysight CTO Jay Alexander has announced plans to retire …
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted along party lines to expand the use of the 4.9 GHz band, over objections from public safety users. The 4.9 GHz spectrum, which consists …
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How digitalization and virtualization are impacting the telecom workforce
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillSoftware and digitalization are becoming central to every aspect of telecom network, from how they are architected and operated, to the very process of physically deploying them. Automating highly manual …
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#TBT: Google’s broadband dreams; What is 5G, really?; Magic IoT beans … this week in 2016
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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With the Priority Access License Auction concluded, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service continues to expand its ecosystem related to the secondary PALs market and network planning tools. Select Spectrum, a …
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U.S. wireline networks held up well overall under the network usage shifts associated with the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data from benchmarking and analysis company umlaut provided exclusively to …
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In yet another illumination of the extent to which technological capability is increasingly seen as tied to national security, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is starting up its first-ever federal …
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Test company Rohde & Schwarz and digitalization and software company Fieldforce are partnering to integrate test capabilities with Fieldforce’s digital workflow management. Basit Malik, founder and CEO of Fieldforce, said …
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Absence of a 5G iPhone has held back 5G adoption in the US, OpenSignal says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe lack of an Apple iPhone that is 5G-capable has held back 5G adoption in the U.S. — but as Apple and Google join the 5G fray this fall, more …
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#TBT: iPhone 6 breaks records; Test companies split up; Verizon rolls out VoLTE… 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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AT&T is bringing 5G and its commercial networking-as-a-service to three U.S. Air Force bases by the end of this year: Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska; and Offutt Air …
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DoD RFI asks about possibility of owning and operating its own domestic 5G networks In a newly published Request for Information, the Department of Defense is asking for insights on …
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An Oracle/WalMart deal and a court injunction keep TikTok and WeChat alive for US users
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillA combination of a last-minute deal and a court injunction mean that bans on downloads and updates for Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat have been averted, and the applications are still …
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The Trump administration will bar downloads of the popular Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat beginning on Sunday, calling the apps a threat to national security. The Commerce Department, which is …
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Keysight Technologies this week announced what it is calling the industry’s first cloud-native distributed network performance and security test software for characterizing user experience and validating network performance of hybrid …
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China appears to have jitters that the newly announced $40 billion acquisition of Arm by U.S.-based NVIDIA could put its semiconductor industry in peril, and the deal could mean that …
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The Trump administration has settled on a new Republican nominee to the Federal Communications Commission: Nathan Simington, a telecom lawyer who has been holding a senior advisor position at the …
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#TBT: Nextel struggles in a 3G world; Legere joins T-Mo; Lining up for iPhone 5 … 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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COVID-19 leads to an overall drop in robocalls, but pandemic-related scams grow
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe global pandemic has caused major slow-downs across most industries — and robocalling is apparently no exception. According to Transaction Network Services’ latest robocall report for the first half of …
