Analyst house Omdia has ranked the top mobile network operators in the world for their various progress with ‘tech-co’ reinvention, and placed a trio of Asia Pacific (APAC) firms in the top spots in the league table, leading the charge from their peers in...
New entrant 5G facilities-based national mobile network operator (MNO) DISH Wireless selected Crown Castle to provide up to 20,000 tower collocation cell sites for a fixed monthly rental fee in a lease agreement signed November 2020. In addition to space on the towers for...
'Convenience is the clear advantage'
U.S. consumers are primed to accept Fixed Wireless Access service as a primary connectivity option, and those who have it don't intent to switch any time soon, according to a new report from Ericsson's Consumer Lab.
Of U.S. households which...
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How 'bout that...
5G, fiber continue to drive the telco's results in Q1
AT&T beat expectations on its customer growth, with revenues off just slightly from the same period last year as CEO John Stankey continued to emphasize the telco's focus on consistent, profitable growth driven by 5G...
Greetings from Atlanta and the Midwest. Pictured is a vintage t-shirt (from the Royals 2003 season) proclaiming what die hard fans are saying as team continues to be a contender throughout April for the first time in nearly a decade. Last night’s loss snapped...
The commercial highlights an AT&T satellite-to-cellular service
In the most recent of a series of ongoing tests with AT&T, AST SpaceMobile streamed one of the carrier's commercials from space to a smartphone.
The two companies are conducting tests via AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite, which is...
America Movil currently has over 10 million 5G subscribers nationwide
Mexican operator América Móvil, which operates under the Telcel brand, reached 125 cities with its 5G network, América Móvil's deputy director of communication and government relations, Renato Flores Cartas said via social media.
The executive...
Examples of how operators are using AI today include network anomaly detection and root cause analysis
Telecom companies have been using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in their operations for years. However, the current telco environment sets the stage for further innovation around...
The interest in cellular non-terrestrial network technology and the business opportunity is reflected in the amount of activity in the space in recent years, as 3GPP 5G standards work has built momentum toward convergence of satellite and cellular networks and raised the possibility of...
Greetings from the Carolinas and the Midwest. Our Davidson dinner included local telecom/ tech leaders as well as many Davidson students. A great way to get caught up with several of you – thanks for making the evening so special.
We have a full market commentary...
The Federal Communications Commission has granted permission for AT&T and ASTSpaceMobile to test direct-to-cellular capabilities using FirstNet and 800 MHz spectrum in Texas and Hawaii.
According to a filing with the FCC, ASTSpaceMobile and AT&T are planning to test uplink connections from up to...
In a more open and flexible network environment, the attack surface has been 'opened up'
Emerging technologies like cloud, edge and AI represent serious opportunities for telcos when it comes to network performance, efficiency and potential new revenue streams; however, they also present a host...
The data set included personal information such as Social Security numbers, said AT&T
AT&T confirmed this weekend that roughly 73 million current and former customers have been impacted by a recent data breach in which sensitive information was posted on the dark web. The data...
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AT&T Wireless begins...
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved a new rules framework on satellite-based, cellular communications directly to end-user devices—or "supplemental coverage from space" (SCS).
The new rules provide guidance to "enable collaborations between wireless carriers and satellite operators to make sure smartphone users stay...
Greetings from Spain, Florida, and the Midwest. Pictured is Jim wearing a replica Roman emperor helmet while visiting filmmaking friends in Madrid. This has been an action-packed two weeks with Mobile World Congress and the C3 Transform conference. This week, we will have a...
BARCELONA—As 5G continues to evolve, the telecom industry is setting its sights on a new frontier: achieving global service ubiquity through a combination of cellular terrestrial networks and space-based, non-terrestrial networks.
At booths around the show, Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets were on display, enabling...
AT&T says this is the 'next milestone' in its Open RAN journey
AT&T says that it has commercial traffic running on Ericsson Cloud RAN sites in its 5G network.
The first cloud RAN sites are located south of Dallas, Texas, the carrier added. AT&T and...
AT&T users reported a widespread mobile network outage on Thursday morning, with tens of thousands of users reporting online that their phones showed no received signal and they were unable to call or text.
According to AT&T customer posts on X, formerly known as Twitter,...
AT&T, Verizon, Vonage all pushing network APIs and software developer outreach ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Step 1: Using network application programming interfaces (APIs), operators expose network data and capabilities to software developers
Step 2: Developers leverage the data and network capabilities to create...
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AT&T offers unlimited...
The 'next phase' of the FirstNet network focuses on 5G and coverage expansion
Having completed the initial deployment of the FirstNet network for first responders, AT&T and the First Responders Network Authority today announced that they expect to invest $8 billion in to the network...
"The best way to assess integration across the industry is to go big," writes AT&T's VP of RAN Technology
AT&T and Verizon are heading up a federally funded, $42.3 million project focused on Open RAN interoperability, network performance and security, as well as new...