Network operators are racing to restore connectivity across five Southeastern states devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Cellular networks across the Appalachian Mountains were taken out by the storm, which blew ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and then barreled northward, dumping feet of rain,...
September greetings from Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, and Charlottesville where we are attending a family wedding (picture is of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia). A terrific celebration with family and friends and congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs.
There is plenty of...
The FCC says AT&T is “strengthening its data governance practices”
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission today (Sept. 17) announced that AT&T will pay $13 million to settle an investigation associated with a customer data breach made public in July. The settlement is related to a...
The expectations for generative artificial intelligence in the telecom space are high: McKinsey & Co. says gen AI could revitalize telco profitability; Ericsson says that it is already transforming the industry. The applications of gen AI are manifesting in customer care chatbots and more...
Let’s take a closer look at how AT&T is reshuffling the cards for future and growth, and what they are doing or going to do with AI. This is what business customers, consumers, investors and workers need to know about the company and the...
McKinsey & Company sees network API market potentially generating hundreds of billions in new revenue
Ericsson alongside major global operators, including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone, today announced an as-yet unnamed joint venture...
AI-enabled data analysis firm Unsupervised announces an expanded collaboration with AT&T
AT&T is continuing its telco AI ambitions after working with Unsupervised to identify more than $100 million “worth of opportunities which could be deployed across a variety of business units at AT&T,” according to...
Citi Global Conference attendees were told that AT&T will provide additional fiber investment updates 'in the coming weeks'
Last week, Jenifer Robertson, AT&T’s executive vice president & general manager of mass markets, offered insight into the operator's convergence strategy at the Citi Global Conference,...
September greetings from Kansas City and Cedar Rapids. Pictured is the CellSite Solutions indoor gantry crane moving one of September’s remufacturing shelter projects into place (twenty tons of project in this case). The team completely rebuilds each one to customer specifications, then delivers to...
Satellite direct-to-cellular company AST SpaceMobile has confirmed a target launch date of September 12 for its first five BlueBird satellites, destined for low Earth orbit, which will provide the basis for initial commercial non-terrestrial network (NTN) services for carriers including AT&T and Verizon.
The...
AT&T has struck a deal with Kinetic, the broadband brand of Windstream Communications, to create a fiber + wireless service bundle across Kinetic's 18-state, rural-focused footprint.
Kinetic serves customers in the central U.S. from Minnesota to Texas, across the Southeast and in parts of...
In December, AT&T said it was eying an additional 10-15 million incremental locations within its existing fiber footprint
Per a five-year agreement, Nokia will provide AT&T with its Lightspan MF and Altiplano platforms to support the carrier’s current and future fiber network. The fiber technologies...
The Federal Communications Commission has announced two settlements with telecom service providers in regards to network outages during 2023.
AT&T will pay nearly a million dollars as part of its settlement. In addition to the $950,000 fine for the network outage on August 22,...
On August 16th, the Communications Workers of America accused AT&T of unfair labor practices, kicking off a widespread strike
The latest from the scene of a week-long AT&T union worker strike in the Southeast reveals that thousands of workers remain picketing out on the streets,...
AST SpaceMobile provided a business update this week, as it preps for the launch of its first five satellites to support a commercial direct-to-cellular service. That long-anticipated launch is expected in the first half of September.
"We stand at a pivotal moment for AST...
Whether telco AI applications are delivered by leveraging hyperscaler clouds or run on-premises, many are support by the multi-billion parameter large language models (LLMs) provided by the likes of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI and a handful of other well-funded specialists in model development and training....
Oracle is incorporating cellular IoT connectivity and network APIs from AT&T into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP), it has said. The move means Oracle’s enterprise customers can do away with the need to manage complex integrations and network contracts when deploying fleets of IoT...
July and August greetings from Nashville, Boston, Cedar Rapids, St. Louis, and Kansas City. Pictured is our wonderful view from the Cardinals-Royals game on Saturday No one complained about the cooler than average August temperatures. And, after a heartbreaking loss on Friday, the Royals...
NARB concurs with recommendation that AT&T 'discontinue or modify' claims about the availability of NTN coverage
The National Advertising Review Board (NARB) has agreed with the previous recommendation made by a panel of the BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) that AT&T “discontinue or...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning has been moving into many aspects of network testing, from the field to service assurance, to fuel automation and increased efficiency. So where exactly is AI/ML being applied in network testing and assurance today, how is it proving its...
July greetings from Cedar Rapids, Kansas City and, by the time most of you read this, Nashville, the home of this year’s Fiber Connect conference. The schedule is full for both days; the evening reception on Monday will be the best time to catch...
CEO Stankey emphasizes "durable trends" for 5G and fiber growth
AT&T reported wireless postpaid phone net additions of 419,000, with mobility service revenues up 3.4% year-over-year to $16.3 billion for the second quarter. CEO John Stankey noted on the company's quarterly call that so far...
Convergence, rejuvenation, transformation, sophistication...AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Telstra, Vodafone execs chart a course to growth at DTW24—Ignite
There were a number of prominent themes this year at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World—Ignite event in Copenhagen, Denmark. AI, obviously, cloud, operating models, reskilling/upskilling, etc…But the high-level view,...
July greetings from Cedar Rapids, Kansas City and Washington, DC. Kudos to my brother-in-law, Andrew Ashcroft, for earning his promotion to Captain in the U.S. Navy. It was an honor to join family and friends at the Pentagon earlier this month to celebrate his...
