Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst

Verizon planning to offer 5G Home in four more markets by the end of 2020 Verizon’s initial foray into commercial 5G services came in late 2018 with the deployment of …

5G, edge compute, AI and more will drive us into a new future RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Kevin Shatzkamer (Bonus Episode) This week on Will …

Open RAN vendors organizing to have radios ready to replace rural Huawei kit The open RAN hits keep on coming with key players Altiostar and Mavenir this morning they will …

 RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Farid Firouzbakht, CommScope (Ep. 10) Massive MIMO, open RAN and more This week CommScope’s Farid Firouzbakht, senior vice president and …

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing key to scaling 5G network coverage AT&T has previously discussed its plans to use Dynamic Spectrum Sharing to add 5G network coverage by using software to dynamically …

Open RAN movement latest front in larger geopolitical conflict With the benefit of hindsight, the 5G New Radio standard was collaboratively developed by organizations like 3GPP with a broad goal …

Most of you reading this blog will be doing so under lockdown. Whether or not you are reading this while working is another matter, but regardless, you will be using …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Arun Bhikshesvaran, Radisys (Ep. 9) This week on Will 5G Change the World?, Radisys CEO Arun Bhikshesvaran discusses his favorite journey, …

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell sent the following memo, re-published in full, to company employees. “This has been an incredibly difficult time in America – troubling and sad. The murder …

Intel pledges $1 million “to address social justice, racism” Intel CEO Bob Swan on May 31 sent the following memo, re-published in full, to company employees. “I’m writing to you …

The battle for the edge is now. With its ability to connect to any device, anywhere, the edge is driving industries to move to datacenter-less environment delivering real time outcome-based, …

5G is meant to be flexible so its radio access network should be too Nokia is unique compared to its competitors Ericsson and Huawei in that the company has amped …

As Ansel Adams put it, “There’s nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept The story of open RAN is nuanced. Beyond the formidable technology piece, geopolitics inform …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Ignacio Contreras, Qualcomm (Ep. 8) On the latest episode of Will 5G Change the World?, Qualcomm Senior Director of 5G Marketing …

Nokia collaborated with other vendors in Rakuten Mobile’s network build Earlier this month the Open RAN Policy Coalition launched with a number of open RAN vendors, naturally, and operator members, …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Mike Zeto, Boingo Wireless (Bonus Episode) What’s the future of in-building venue connectivity? This week on Will 5G Change the World? …

AT&T took, and is still taking, heat for branding its LTE-Advanced network “5GE” For some time now, AT&T has marketed its LTE-Advanced network as “5GE,” with the “E” referring to …

Simplicity is key in delivering enterprise private network solutions According to a virtual panel hosted during the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s ConnectX event, enterprises are eager to leverage shared access to …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Sandro Tavares, Nokia (Ep. 7) Nokia looks to the standalone 5G future In the latest episode of Will 5G Change the …

Right now 5G is primarily focused on providing an enhanced mobile broadband experience primarily to consumers with compatible handsets. As people upgrade their devices and carriers invest in scaling networks, …

Verizon CFO talks millimeter wave 5G, DSS and mid-band With COVID-19-related restrictions emptying out central business districts, shopping centers and large public venues, there has been discussion in the telecom …

5G is many things, chief among them an exercise in managing complexity. The network is becoming more complex, the way the network is being used is becoming more complex and …

Last month Microsoft acquired vEPC specialist Affirmed Networks Microsoft this week announced it has signed a definite agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks, a cloud-native virtual network functions provider that works …

Edge computing is a broad term that, at a high-level simply means moving computing out of data centers and closer to where applications are running, but has specific qualities that …

We measured spectrum usage in two markets and were able to verify that T-Mobile and AT&T are using spectrum licenses on loan from others to improve their wireless services.    National …