Public safety agencies are increasingly relying on the use of cellular devices and mobile broadband to augment their land mobile radio voice networks. Carriers who have previously focused primarily on …
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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AT&T executives said on the company’s results call that they have largely delivered on the efforts to re-shape the company’s financial position and pay down debt. The company missed Wall …
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In the latest move by carriers to target the first responder market, T-Mobile US announced a new plan for first responders. Available starting November 1, the Magenta First Responder plan …
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The First Responders Authority will be receiving about $18 billion in payments from AT&T over the 25-year-term of the FirstNet contract. An estimated $16 billion of that is expected to …
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Sprint, T-Mobile US, Verizon and AT&T are going all-in on RCS, with a new joint venture to enable cross-carrier RCS messaging. The new Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative, or CCMI, expects …
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Network testing and engineering firm P3 Group AG has rebranded itself, taking the name of the Germanic umlaut — two small dots placed over a vowel — to symbolize itself …
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DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: Hulking out, helping out and exploring the limits of AI-based spectrum sharing
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillLOS ANGELES, California — There were gator chomps, a stuffed marmot and Monty Python jokes. Software defined radios “hulked out” or helped each other out, jockeying for position in crowded …
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#TBT: Dude, where’s my tower?; Nokia claims top spot in phone manufacturing; Towers boom, mergers bust … this week in 1998
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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Vodafone Business and AT&T have agreed on a roaming relationship that they say creates the largest narrowband IoT footprint in the world for global devices, allowing devices to roam between …
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ANAHEIM, California — The sleek, matte-black oval of an antenna cover blends seamlessly into the background in the Don Julio club at Angel Stadium, despite being the star of the …
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OpenSignal examines speed, latency and the rural/urban mobile digital divide
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillAlaska rural users had the highest latency among the 50 states, followed by Montana rural users Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are being allocated toward improving rural connectivity, with …
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Telcos “must act now or lose out,” report says Edge computing is at a turning point, with discussions centered around the “how” and “when” of implementation rather than the “if” …
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Test and Measurement: ipoque, Dell and Cardinality introduce new telco analytics
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillRohde & Schwarz’s deep packet inspection specialist ipoque, Dell and Cardinality have partnered on a new virtualized probe and analytics solutions for telcos which leverages ipoque’s recently announced R&S Net …
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Late last month, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) held its fourth round of testing aimed at ensuring interoperability across products that provide mission-critical features based on 3GPP standards. The …
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#TBT: Parsing PCS auction bids; Pondering in-building wireless; Paging protocols: FLEX vs POCSAG … this week in 1996
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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5G is definitely fast and has a lot of potential, but it’s still in its infancy as far as technologies go — it needs time to mature and get past …
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EXFO improved its financial performance for its full-year fiscal 2019 results, with sales up 6.4% from fiscal 2018 to $286.9 million and a net loss that was trimmed by nearly …
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Comcast and Charter’s MVNOs are disrupting the postpaid market, Tutela finds
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe new MVNO kids are the block have set their sights on the coveted postpaid market, and they are succeeding in capturing a large chunk of growth while offering an …
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#TBT: Qualcomm’s first PCS phone; Southern Company gets into wireless; the wacky world of the ‘we-way’ … this week in 1994
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 has agreed to sell its operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to regional telecom operator Liberty Latin America, lock, stock and barrel — or more properly …
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Semiconductor company Qorvo has agreed to acquire radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical system (RF MEMS) company Cavendish Kinetics, saying that the purchase will add to its capabilities in antenna tuning and improving …
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Only about 40% of mobile phone users want their carriers to automatically block all calls from numbers not in their contacts list — but that number nearly doubles for calls …
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Test and Measurement: 5G helps to drive data center testing needs, Frost & Sullivan says
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillThe anticipation of broader 5G deployments is one of the driving factors for fiber-optic testing and monitoring needs in data centers, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. …
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DC Circuit court largely upholds net neutrality repeal, but FCC can’t preempt net neutrality state laws
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillFCC commissioners react to ruling that largely upholds the repeal, but strikes down preemption of net neutrality rules by states and cities A federal appeals court ruling on the Federal …
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#TBT: Project Loon connects Puerto Rico; Sprint’s Magic Box is hot; FirstNet sets state opt-in deadline … this week in 2017
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 …
