AT&T has agreed to lease spectrum in the 700 MHz and 850 MHz bands to AST SpaceMobile
In an official filing, AT&T asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve waivers allowing satellite-direct-to-phone company AST SpaceMobile to operate on leased spectrum from the carrier....
Vertical Bridge has agreed to construct these towers with Verizon as the anchor tenant
U.S. carrier Verizon signed a deal with Vertical Bridge to build cell towers across the country to expand its 4G and 5G services. In a release, Verizon said that Vertical Bridge...
TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based Wi-Fi architecture that enables multi-vendor, interoperable Wi-Fi networks
Kenya now has its first Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi outdoor network thanks to a collaboration between free WiFi internet service provider ThinkWiFi and Mawingu, an internet service provider backed by...
As the U.S. federal government pours billions of dollars into broadband deployment and adoption, it is also trying to get a better handle on coordination and tracking of those efforts across disparate agencies with different funding mechanisms and program requirements.
A new report from...
Operators are now saying they 'have no choice' but to share small cell infrastructure, according to Connect (X) panelists
NEW ORLEANS - At Connect (X) 2023 in New Orleans, panelists offered insight into the small cell market, with an emphasis on whether this infrastructure will...
Qualcomm’s 5G vision is to intelligently connect virtually everything around us, enabling new applications for a wide range of devices, services, and deployments. Sidelink, or device-to-device connectivity, is an important piece of this vision, particularly for public safety and other safety-critical communications.
China Mobile-Tencent JV had been initially approved by China’s market regulator in November 2022
Chinese internet company Tencent Holdings and China Unicom have officially formed a joint venture with a registered capital of CNY300 million ($43.4 million), Chinese press reported.
The JV was initially approved by...
Thanks to being in Dallas last week for the Juniper Networks Enterprise Analyst & Influencer Summit, I can attest the Wi-Fi and wireless services made available to travelers at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport is at best, hit and miss. Some users got connected,...
Starlink in Canada was the fastest in North America, clocking a download speed of 93.97 Mbps
According to new data gathered by Ookla, Starlink users “love” their service, while fixed broadband users are a whole lot less thrilled with their internet service providers (ISPs).
When users...
Altice reported its 'best ever' fiber net additions in Q1 2023, said company CEO
Altice USA ended the first quarter of 2023 with a total revenue of $2.29 billion, which represents a 5.3% year-over-year (YoY) decline. Further, the company noted a 2.8% decline in total...
Nokia said that 5G will account for 17% of the region's overall mobile subscribers in 2027
5G subscribers in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA) are forecast to reach 380 million by 2027, according to Nokia’s MEA mobile broadband index.
The report noted that 5G...
Bell now offers "5G+" coverage to more than 40% of the Canadian population
Canadian carrier Bell is on track to reach 85% of the country’s population with its 5G service by the end of 2023, the company’s President and CEO Mirko Bibic said during a...
Indus Tower currently has over 189,000 towers across India
Indian telecommunications tower company Indus Tower will accelerate investments to expand its infrastructure across the country to take advantage of the rapid rollout of 5G services by local carriers Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm, local...
US Cellular says its Fixed Wireless Access gross adds for the quarter were up 130% YoY
In a Q1 2023 earnings call, US Cellular executives reiterated the company’s top priority of boosting customer results, claiming improvements in postpaid gross adds on a year-over-year basis and...
The small cells form factor is 'a necessary but not sufficient condition' for enterprise 5G adoption, says Celona CEO
From Celona’s perspective, enterprise consumption of 5G is how the cellular technology is going to truly be propagated throughout the market. Further, because of the ways...
DNB said its 5G network should reach 80% of the country's population by the end of the year
Malaysia’s state-run 5G network operator Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) will continue to roll out 5G network infrastructure in the country until 80% coverage is achieved by the...
It’s hard to imagine an application today that isn’t reliant on connectivity to different clouds, multiple microservices and highly distributed users. To paraphrase the poet John Donne for our modern IT world — “No application is an island, entire of itself.” A simple migration...
PITTSBURGH, Penn.—The state of Alaska accounts for about one-fifth of the total geographic area of the U.S. but just 0.2% of the U.S. population, or around 724,000 residents.
Alaskan carrier GCI started as a long-distance carrier in the early 1980s, and through acquisitions of...
The government of Malaysia said this decision will foster competition in the 5G field
The government of Malaysia confirmed it will enable the deployment of a second 5G network next year, amid concerns about pricing and competition with the current single state-run network, according to...
Airtel said it is currently offering its 5G service in 3,500 towns and cities at a national level
Indian operator Bharti Airtel expects its 5G service to reach 7,000 cities and nearly 100,000 villages across India by March 2024, local newspaper The Economic Times reported,...
Data analysis from NTIA looks at CBRS trends from April 2021 to January 2023
Deployments of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) grew at a steady clip of about 12% per quarter during 2021 and 2022 and are dominated by outdoor sites using General Authorized Access...
Ericsson adding Dell infrastructure to its Cloud RAN product
Dell Technologies, by way of its Telecom Systems Business, continues to develop its telco-facing solutions portfolio—largely by way of partnerships. In a duo of recent announcements, Dell is bringing its infrastructure to Ericsson’s Cloud RAN product,...
The sharing agreement was signed in 2014 for a period of 20 years
French telecom regulator Arcep said it had received three new amendments to the network sharing agreement between local carriers Bouygues Telecom and SFR.
Once in effect, the network sharing agreement, initially implemented for...
1&1 launched 5G services with fixed wireless access (FWA) technology earlier this year
Germany’s federal network agency, Bundesnetzagentur, opened a fine proceeding against local telco 1&1 for failures in its 5G network coverage obligations, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported.
As part of the 2019 frequency auction, the...
