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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Continued midband spectrum deployments by U.S. national carriers are further improving 5G performance, according to new analysis by Ookla of the 5G experience in the U.S. as of the first …

FirstNet budget passes with more than $500 million for network improvements Now that the initial build-out of the FirstNet network has been completed, the First Responders Network Authority is turning …

Father’s Day greetings from Atlanta, Kansas City, and, by the time you read this, Cedar Rapids.  Pictured is a long-time colleague and friend Hunter Newby, along with Brent Legg of …

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 …

From connected AI PCs to fully private on-prem networks, the combined AT&T and Dell portfolios deliver coverage solutions to meet customers where they are AT&T and Dell Technologies continue to …

High-penetration FWA areas actually have better performance than low-penetration FWA areas, Opensignal found 5G Fixed Wireless Access has “reshaped” the broadband market in the United States, moving into mainstream adoption …