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Ericsson and major global operators announce API joint venture

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...

AT&T sees $100 million in telco AI ‘opportunities’ 

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...

AT&T sees fiber/wireless convergence as a ‘line of sight’ to revenue

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,...

The Sunday Brief: Why Frontier? Why now?

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...

3, 2, 1, blast off: AST SpaceMobile confirms September satellite launch date

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 strikes 5G, fiber bundle deal with Windstream’s Kinetic

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...

AT&T signs multi-year deal with Nokia as it continues betting on fiber

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...

FCC settles network outage issues with AT&T, Altice

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,...

Negotiations continue in Southeast AT&T union strike

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,...

Key takeaways from AST SpaceMobile’s quarter

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...

Three large language models (LLMs)—and how they’re being used for telco AI use cases

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 taps AT&T to connect its enterprise IoT application services

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...

The Sunday Brief: 2Q earnings review—when history rhymes (Part 1)

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...

AT&T told to come back to Earth with space coverage claims

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...

Editorial Webinar: How AI is being applied in network testing and assurance

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...

The Sunday Brief: 2Q earnings review—facts are stubborn things

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...

AT&T: Continued consistency, with FWA adding to the mix

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...

How to build a telco platform—four CTOs draw the blueprint

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,...

The Sunday Brief: the lowest quartile (2Q earnings preview)

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...

AT&T reveals major data hack, says arrest has been made

An AT&T workspace cloud platform provided by third-party vendor Snowflake was 'unlawfully accessed' AT&T has revealed in a new filing that during a six-month period in 2022, it fell prey to a major hack of customer data impacting nearly all of its subscribers. In a...

Seven cases and places where Wi-Fi HaLow works well for IoT

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has claimed triumphant IoT trials of new Wi-Fi HaLow technology in different enterprise venues. Its ‘phase-two’ tests of the technology, listed as 802.11ah in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) family of IEEE 802 standards of local,...

Post-Beryl cellular network, power outages linger

Roughly 30% of sites are impacted in six south Texas counties; carriers focus on refueling generators at hundreds of sites As mobile network operators work to restore service in the wake of Hurricane Beryl's strike upon southeastern Texas, the Federal Communications Commission says that roughly...

The Sunday Brief: Where are they spending money?

End of the month/ quarter greetings from Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, Nashville, and, by the time you read this, Washington DC.  Pictured is one of the wonderful CellSite Solutions cranes getting ready for a shelter lift. The first two weeks on the job have...

AT&T, T-Mo, Verizon; Audi, Ford, GM – five cases of 5G driving the auto industry

Seeing as you enjoyed our last post so much, here is another entry based on the same report by the CTIA, the cellular industry association in the US, and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, its equivalent for the automotive industry, about how 5G connectivity...