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FirstNet subscribers also boosting AT&T service revenues As it expands the reach of its gigabit LTE (5G Evolution) offering and turns up standards-based 5G beginning later this year, AT&T will …

  Spanish carrier Telefonica also secured spectrum in the tender process AT&T secured 80 megahertz of spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band in an auction carried out by the Mexican …

  AT&T said it had invested $1 billion to upgrade wireless and wireline infrastructure in certain areas across Florida during the 2015-2017 period AT&T has installed new distributed antenna systems …

AT&T, Time Warner combo anti-competitive, DOJ says In June, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner could proceed with no concession or restrictions. …

AT&T spending more than $40 billion on FirstNet build During the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International (APCO) show in Las Vegas, several companies have announced that they have received FirstNet …

Study tested carrier services for identifying and blocking spam calls A study by analyst firm Mind Commerce found that services offered by wireless network operators are “generally effective” at identifying …

Internet of things (IoT) technology is to be installed in school zones across the state of Georgia to improve road safety for children. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is …

AT&T taking ‘one-touch, one-tower’ approach to FirstNet build In providing a second quarter update on the carrier’s financial performance, AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan provided an update on the FirstNet …

AT&T execs highlight Time Warner acquisition on Q2 earnings call With the acquisition of the Time Warner portfolio complete (despite a Department of Justice appeal), AT&T is becoming much more …

AT&T has activated FirstNet spectrum at some 2,500 sites As the carrier activates the FirstNet LTE network dedicated for use by first responders, while simultaneously augmenting its own consumer-facing network …

So far AT&T has named six of 12 5G launch cities AT&T on Friday added some detail to its commercial 5G launch plans by identifying three more cities where it …

T-Mo turns up NB-IoT services T-Mobile US is laying claim to a narrowband internet of things first, with the official launch of a new narrowband IoT network that operates in …

Boost in network speeds seen as ‘indication of network capabilities to come’ Mobile network operators are significantly boosting their network speeds, and T-Mobile US came out on top in speed …

Judge approved AT&T buy of Time Warner with no conditions An attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division on July 12 filed a two-page notice with the U.S. …

Licenses for millimeter wave frequencies in 24, 28, 37, 39 and 47 GHz bands focus of proposed auctions The multi-gigabit speeds 5G is designed to support will require large swatches …

Threat intelligence a key part of risk management strategy Threat intelligence solutions were a primary motivator of AT&T’s acquisition of AlienVault, which is expected to close in Q3 this year. To …

AT&T expects acquisition of open-source cybersecurity AlienValut specialist later this year As AT&T continues down its network virtualization efforts using the open-source Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), the operator has …

The adoption of cellular internet-of-things (IoT) technologies is not being slowed by the high price of chipsets, but by the complexity of their design, reckons chip supplier Nordic Semiconductor. Module …

ETSI plugtest event was the first to test mission-critical data, video interoperability More than 2,000 tests of LTE mission critical push-to-talk, MC data and MC video at a Texas plugtest …

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 …

Open source DNOS part of network virtualization efforts Since the days of Domain 2.0, AT&T has set ambitious goals for its network virtualization efforts. The operator finished 2017 with 55% …

Last week at MWC Shanghai 2018, Glenn Lurie, CEO of Synchronoss Technologies, spoke about the huge new opportunity mobile operators have in the area of cloud storage and messaging. He …

AT&T will go after the broad industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market with an expanded connectivity portfolio as it unfolds its new narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network across the US and Mexico through 2019. …

The message coming from T-Mobile US and Sprint executives as they work to convince legislators that their proposed merger will be of benefit to U.S. consumers seems to largely come …

Mobile operators from every region have backed the GSMA’s new IoT security guidelines. AT&T is the only US operator so far to have committed to the GSMA measures; it is …