YOU ARE AT:TagsAT&T

BROWSING: AT&T

AT&T Q1 — revenue, 5G and fiber subscribers all trending up

Postpaid and fiber growth fuel Q1 gains as AT&T homes in on 30 million-location fiber milestone AT&T kicked off 2025 on strong footing, reporting robust financial and operational performance in the first quarter and reaffirming its full-year guidance, citing growth across its 5G mobility and...

AT&T, AST SpaceMobile get FCC approval for FirstNet Direct-to-Cell trials

Later this year, select first responders using AT&T FirstNet will participate in trials to evaluate public safety-grade connectivity enabled by satellite The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AT&T and AST SpaceMobile permission to test direct-to-cell satellite connectivity using spectrum allocated for public safety. This...

AI infra brief: From NVIDIA, AT&T, Google and more

In this regular update, RCR Wireless News highlights the top news and developments impacting the booming AI infrastructure sector. NVIDIA brings agentic AI reasoning to enterprises with Google Cloud NVIDIA said it is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring agentic AI to enterprises seeking to locally...

AT&T’s Wi-Fi strategy gets a boost with Karrier One partnership

As user behavior continues to shift mobile data consumption toward Wi-Fi, telcos like AT&T are doubling down on Wi-Fi offload strategies A new partnership between AT&T and Karrier One, announced today, aims to significantly expand global Wi-Fi offload coverage while pushing the boundaries of decentralized...

The Sunday Brief: Is telecom a safe haven?

March greetings from Iowa and Missouri.  This week’s picture is of Saturday’s peaceful protest on the Kansas City Plaza.  While this location is known for weekly demonstrations, the crowd size was larger than normal.  It did not interfere with our ability to enjoy the...

AT&T certifies Celona’s neutral-host system for indoor CBRS coverage

In sum – what you should know Multi-operator support: Celona’s neutral-host solution is approved by T-Mobile and AT&T in the US; Verizon is pending. It supports up to five carriers, including private enterprise networks in CBRS spectrum. Quick and cheap coverage: Multi-tenant neutral-host cellular...

FirstNet exceeds 7 million subscribers

The FirstNet network for first responders has reached a connection base of more than 7 million, according to AT&T. The carrier also says that it has the largest network footprint in the country, with FirstNet now covering nearly 3 million square miles of the...

Comcast expands Janus virtualization, AI trial with DriveNets

Comcast is expanding the virtualization, disaggregation and embedding of AI more pervasively across its network in an initiative called Janus, with support from DriveNets.

How AT&T and Fujitsu are catalyzing Open RAN adoption

AT&T’s four Open RAN pillars—open basebands, third-party radio integration, cloud RAN, and advanced network management In a landmark deal that signaled the maturity of Open RAN for major brownfield communications service providers (CSPs), AT&T in 2023 announced it would spend more than $14 billion over...

AT&T at MWC: Open RAN, AI and more

AT&T network CTO Yigal Elbaz on AI, Open RAN and how MWC trends from past years are playing out RCR Wireless News caught up with Yigal Elbaz, AT&T's SVP of technology and network services and network CTO for AT&T Services, at Mobile World Congress in...

AT&T, T-Mo US and Verizon team up on network APIs in US

Leveraging Ericsson's joint API venture Aduna, the telcos will deliver network APIs related to end user security Aduna, an Application Programming Interface (API) joint venture launched in September by Ericsson, Google Cloud and several major global operators, has announced that venture partners AT&T, T-Mobile US and...

Intel sharpens AI data center focus with Xeon 6 launch

For operators, Xeon 6 with performance cores supports vRAN acceleration and edge AI use cases As Intel goes through a leadership transition and rumors of a potential split between the foundry and products businesses make the rounds, the company made a major step in developing...

Urban vs. rural 5G: Midband spectrum, FirstNet and acquisitions have driven coverage

AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon have taken 'very different approaches' on rural 5G expansion, Ookla finds Over the past five years since launching 5G, the three national carriers have all expanded their rural 5G footprints. Each has taken a different strategy, however, driven primarily by...

Cellular IoT’s annus horribilis could get worse – some vendors down 50%

All told, 2024 was something of an annus horribilis for the cellular IoT sector, with consolidation and divestitures on the back of zero sales growth. But it could prove to be a whole lot worse than expected, it seems. “It's possible that a pessimistic...

AT&T tops RootMetrics’ national, state network testing for 2H 2024

RootMetrics network testing looked at metro, state and national performance of the three major carriers RootMetrics' data put AT&T's network on top in at the national and state-level in its network testing for the second half of 2024 in overall network performance. But Verizon and...

The Sunday Brief: Did they prove it?

February greetings from Boston (pictured), Iowa, and Missouri.  The last two weeks have been filled with earnings releases, economic reports, and general news.  We will do our best to cover the most salient parts of the past fortnight in 2,200 words or less.  Specifically, we...

AT&T and Nokia extend automation and VoNR partnership

As part of the extended deal, AT&T will update its Nokia IMS Voice Core to include VoNR in a fully cloud-native architecture AT&T and Nokia have extended their existing partnership to include support for the evolution of the telco’s voice core offering and for injecting additional automation capabilities into its...

AT&T results reflect a strong finish to 2024

AT&T results beat expectations for Q4 2024, driven by 5G and fiber AT&T continues to focus its attention on its 5G and fiber businesses, and touted "solid momentum" in expanding its customer base of profitable subscribers to both those services. The company's results for the...

The Sunday Brief: Q1 earnings preview—what each company must prove (part 2)

January greetings from Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Iowa -- back on the road drumming up business for CellSite Solutions even with Arctic Chill weather.  But never too busy to stop for lunch with Jeff Moore (pictured), founder of Wave7 Research and a former colleague from the Sprint...

Semtech gets FCC certification, AT&T green-light for RedCap module

Chip maker Semtech Corporation has had its EM8695 5G RedCap module certified by the FCC and PTCRB, the comms regulator and the telco review board in the US, and has also passed tests on mobile operator AT&T’s network. The unit is poised for “carrier...

Mexican regulator cancels upcoming 5G spectrum auction

Mexican regulator IFT was initially expecting to award 5G spectrum this month The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), Mexico’s telecoms regulator, has announced the cancellation of its planned 5G spectrum auction, originally scheduled for this month. In a statement, the IFT said it had received a formal...

The Sunday Brief: Q1 earnings preview—what each company must prove (Part 1)

January greetings from Missouri and Iowa, where one of the two states received a foot of snow (and the other, their northern neighbor, received a small amount yet participated in a string of freezing temperatures).  This week’s Midwest’s weather incidents pale in comparison to...

#TBT: AT&T joins 4G fray; Qualcomm buys Atheros; NVIDIA, ARM partner on CPUs… this week in 2011

Editor’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 those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! AT&T Mobility joins...

Mexico to launch 5G spectrum auction this month

The IFT-12 tender will allocate 2,223 blocks of radio spectrum across several frequency bands for 5G services Mexico’s telecommunications watchdog Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) has announced the launch of the IFT-12 spectrum tender, a major step in the country’s efforts to expand 5G connectivity. In...