Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, where it’s still sunny and warm. October is one of our favorite times, and less travel makes the scenery even more enjoyable.
We recently used one of the “fall weather transition” days to do some sorting and uncovered one of...
AT&T added more than 5 million domestic wireless net adds in Q3
During the AT&T 2020 Q3 earnings call, the latest quarter was summed up as follows: strong connectivity results; business transformation on track; and improved cash flow. Digging deeper into these assessments shows that...
The timing is uncanny, and probably rigged, but Nokia has followed old rival Ericsson to announce a deal with AT&T for cloud-based private LTE, and trumped it – in terms of one-upmanship – with a global arrangement with Verizon for distribution of the 5G...
Drastic. Unproven. A radical departure. A multi-billion dollar giveaway. Those are the kind of terms that telecom industry players are using to describe the Department of Defense's plan to look at developing a spectrum-sharing-based wholesale arrangement for a large swath of its spectrum holdings,...
AT&T users saw the fastest median mobile download speeds on LTE in the third quarter of 2020, according to new crowd-sourced data analysis by Ookla. Verizon's LTE speeds came in fourth, behind both T-Mobile US' legacy network and that of the former Sprint. AT&T's...
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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
McCaw Cellular merges...
AT&T is offering localised private LTE and 5G in CBRS spectrum using Ericsson’s pre-packed radio access and cloud-based core networking products, along with its own multi-access edge computing portfolio. The pair are targeting enterprises looking to take advantage of the newly-available CBRS band in...
As Open RAN technology -- and one might venture, an open RAN mindset -- becomes more intriguing for telecom companies around the world, some of the primary questions are around how the nascent Open RAN ecosystem develops and becomes not just a technology or...
The U.S. Army's public safety personnel will use AT&T-FirstNet services at 72 bases around the lower 48 states, plus Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
AT&T-FirstNet said it will be delivering delivering nearly 3,200 FirstNet service lines for the Army's firefighters, military police and security personnel,...
A new $600 million round of funding by the US Department of Defense (DOD) is being made available for testing military-grade and industrial-grade 5G. The investment will go into smart logistics and industrial AR and VR systems, alongside combat-orientated aircraft and missile communications and...
Like most things telecom, Open RAN brings with it a complex alphabet soup of acronyms and initialisms. Here we’re providing brief explanations of some key terminology. And, to be sure, this is a superficial description of the following terms and a fraction of the...
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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Google dreams big,...
While the benefits of Open RAN (advantageous network economics and deployment flexibility
chief among them) are widely touted, there are also well-articulated issues associated with the technology.
One question is whether operators are trading reduced capex related to RAN infrastructure for increased integration costs as someone...
Northern-burbs-of-Chicago greetings from a recovering sell-side analyst! Jim is taking the Editor on a well-deserved beach break, but before leaving town he asked me to babysit his beloved Sunday Brief (just for this weekend). One of the things I miss most about my...
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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
iPhone 6 breaks...
AT&T has released an LTE and LTE-M gateway device to backhaul data from IoT sensors over cellular in global markets. The new solution, presented by AT&T as a ‘guardian device’, integrates silicon, software, and cloud services from Microsoft Azure.
It is positioned, like a private...
AT&T is bringing 5G and its commercial networking-as-a-service to three U.S. Air Force bases by the end of this year: Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska; and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
The carrier said that it has already completed network design across the...
Three new cities — Atlanta, New York and Washington, DC — have been added to the list of locations where businesses and developers can build and deploy applications with AWS Wavelength at Verizon’s 5G Edge. Verizon and AWS launched the mobile edge computing (MEC)...
Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission brought together a variety of Open RAN stakeholders for its Forum on 5G Open Radio Access Networks. While greenfield operators like DISH and Rakuten Mobile seemed steadfast in their conviction that Open RAN was ready to go...
September greetings from Davidson, NC, and Denver Colorado, where the Mile High weather conditions were simply “smoky.” This week’s opening picture shows last Thursday’s Denver skyline against the white backdrop of smoke, adding another reason to wear a mask. The beautiful views of the...
Every major wireless carrier now has a new CEO. I’ve been a wireless analyst for the last 35 years, watching the industry and commenting on more companies than I can count. With that said, I am very excited right now because I believe the...
In RootMetrics' first round of benchmarking that used 5G-enabled devices to test both 4G and 5G networks, Verizon and AT&T ran neck-and-neck in most categories. But Verizon ultimately topped the rankings in most performance metrics, although AT&T outpaced Verizon in terms of speed.
RootMetrics temporarily...
Carriers' network investments are paying off with higher customer satisfaction
Global Wireless Solutions has crowned AT&T the "best network" in its third annual national testing, but all of the three national operators can find good news in GWS' latest network scoring, which couples nationwide drive-testing...
Public safety users “have had a hunger for data for a very long time, all the way back to our 1G and 2G days,” said Nick Nilan, director of product development for the public sector at Verizon. That use has evolved over time, and...
