On April 16, the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter,” said U.S. Department of Justice officials are “unlikely” to approve a planned merger between T-Mobile US and …
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean focuses on multiple subject areas including 5G, 6G, Open RAN, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and Industry 4.0. Prior to his work at RCR, Sean studied journalism and literature at the University of Mississippi then spent six years based in Key West, Florida, working as a reporter for the Miami Herald Media Company. He currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Continued investments in network densification for both increasingly robust LTE networks, as well as 5G networks, represent a balancing act–location obviously matters, but considerations such as access to backhaul and …
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Qualcomm and Apple agree to six-year patent and chipset supply A long-brewing, global battle between Qualcomm and Apple ended yesterday with the two companies agreeing to end all ongoing litigation …
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Moving from PoC to meaningful scale with smart cities investment When imagining a smart city, many people immediately think of pervasively connected infrastructure streaming valuable data that allows city managers …
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FCC has auctioned 1,500 megahertz of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G Later today (April 12) President Donald Trump and Aji Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, will head …
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Huawei SVP says the company should not be ‘singled out’ in the U.S. DENVER–Huawei, which has been locked out of the Tier 1 U.S. carrier market and is the ongoing …
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Distributed AI part of unlocking 5G value Some of the primary enhancements associated with 5G are major increases to cellular speed and similarly significant reductions to latency. This combination is …
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Wi-Fi 6, based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, is designed for high-density user environments and features uplink and downlink OFDMA, 8×8 multi-user MIMO and 1024 QAM. With network equipment and …
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AT&T on Tuesday said it is now offering standards-based mobile 5G service in seven additional cities–Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, bringing its presence …
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In a back-and-forth that saw carriers on two continents put the pedal to the metal to activate mobile 5G networks ahead of schedule, SK Telecom turned up with six initial …
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HANNOVER, Germany–Based on conversations with executives from network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson during the Hannover Messe industrial fair, both companies see the mining industry as a huge opportunity for …
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Future 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany–Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren’t focused on “leveraging 5G within the …
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HANNOVER, Germany–Rival network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson staked out slightly different stances regarding how to bring private networks to industries at Mobile World Congress. The conversation on what makes …
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HANNOVER, Germany–Nokia has made clear it sees private networks for industrial users as a market segment with huge potential. And, this week at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in …
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HANNOVER, Germany–LTE in unlicensed frequency bands came late in the development of that particular flavor of cellular, and standards body 3GPP was primarily focused on aggregating the 5 GHz band …
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HANNOVER, Germany–The current conversation around 5G is very much consumer-facing. If you attended Mobile World Congress Barcelona this year, chances are you heard more than once about the coming wave …
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HANNOVER, Germany–There’s widespread consensus among the industrial companies on hand for Hannover Messe that 5G will be a major factor in the future of high-value verticals like manufacturing. But, just …
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HANNOVER, Germany–How industrial companies can leverage 5G is an overarching theme at the Hannover Messe trade fair this week. But beyond simply connecting factories with the latest and greatest in …
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HANNOVER, Germany–Hannover Messe is the largest, most important industrial exhibition there is. Companies from the automotive, energy logistics, manufacturing, and many other high-value sectors gather to discuss overarching trends and …
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Both vendors publicly working with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile US on 5G With first-blush services turned up in the U.S. and a few other key global markets, operators are planning …
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Melinda White joined Transit Wireless as chief executive officer in May 2018. The company, which serves as the network provider for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. MTA operates in …
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mmWave propagation key to delivering mobile 5G Verizon will launch a 5G mobility service based on 3GPP’s 5G New Radio standard in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11, a major …
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CBRS Alliance to work on 5G compatibility Around the world, the 3.5 GHz band has been tapped by operators as key mid-range 5G spectrum. In the U.S. that frequency, referred …
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The plan is to serve 50K households with broadband this year Earlier this year T-Mobile US Chief Operating Officer Mike Sievert alluded to an upcoming pilot of a home broadband …
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5G beamforming a critical technology for fixed wireless and mobility Testing beamforming is tricky but crucial, because the technology introduces a level of complexity on both the infrastructure side and …
