AT&T's Director of Cybersecurity Amy Zwarico is excited about the telco trend of move to more software-defined networks because it's increases mobility and allows them to more quickly implement new security controls. However, as more elements of our networks are implemented in software, the...
Verizon has always been one of the United States premier telecommunications providers. However, during the past decade, not so much. Years ago, they were on a growth track under CEO Ivan Seidenberg until he retired. Since that point they have struggled to find a...
Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they...
Experts see device readiness, spectrum access, enterprise skill sets and business case development as private 5G sticking points
The operator and vendor ecosystem selling end-to-end and point private 5G networking solutions see manufacturing as a sector ripe for disruption and new revenue creation. On the...
A new information portal makes the climate-change-related data that AT&T uses to inform its own network resiliency planning available to communities so that they can access free, sophisticated data on anticipated local weather and climate-related hazards.
The Climate Rick & Resilience (ClimRR) data...
How are energy and utility companies thinking about edge computing and the security of that edge?
A newly released report from AT&T looks specifically at how this sector is making use of edge computing and related security concerns. According to the September 2021 survey on...
Carrier's service revenues were up 5.6% year-over-year, AT&T confirms that it already has live 5G SA
AT&T reported strong third-quarter results and said that its midband 5G spectrum roll-out is happening faster than expected. The carrier started off expecting to cover 70 million potential customers...
America Movil aims to end 2022 with 5G coverage in 100 cities across Mexico
Mexican telecom group America Movil ended the third quarter of the year with 5G coverage in 64 cities across the country, the carrier said in its earnings statement.
The telco had ended...
AT&T said it already operates 10 localized 5G network capabilities “edge zones” across the U.S.
U.S. operator AT&T said it is implementing regional Standalone (SA) 5G cores for the deployment of edge networks, which enables the carrier to offer low-latency services.
“5G was designed and is...
Beyond RF challenges, US midband spectrum has limitations built into service rules
As demand for various wireless services has grown, however, it has gotten harder and harder for federal regulators to come up with bands that can be (relatively) easily repurposed—either the cost or the...
C-band has significantly greater capacity than lower frequency 5G bands
According to a new Opensignal report, recent C-band deployments by AT&T and Verizon are helping the pair catch up to T-Mobile US, which has, on several occasions, emerged as the 5G frontrunner when it comes...
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AT&T Mexico had initially launched 5G services in Mexico in December last year using spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band
AT&T Mexico announced the launch of its 5G network in ten new cities across the country.
In a release, the operator said that its 5G offering...
Swiss food-and-drink manufacturing conglomerate Nestlé has tapped Brazilian telecoms duo Claro and Embratel, both subsidiaries of Mexican group América Móvil, to build a private 5G network at a factory in Caçapava, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Swedish vendor Ericsson...
Belfast-based SIM development firm Kigen, previously part of chip design company Arm, is working with US carrier AT&T to enable IoT manufacturers to transfer SIM ownership of AT&T-connected IoT devices to their customers, in the form of end-user facing IoT providers, post-production – without...
Inflationary pressures continue to affect AT&T's business, but the company is seeing strong wireless growth and CEO John Stankey said that there is no single factor enabling this, but instead a multitude of them, from its FirstNet contract to its focus on fiber.
Stankey...
The pair transferred Black Hawk data to the 5G.MIL pilot network using AT&T's 5G private network
AT&T partnered with Lockheed Martin to test helicopter data transfer at the aerospace and defense company’s headquarters in Stratford, Connecticut. The companies transferred data from a Sikorsky UH-60M Black...
AT&T in Mexico has installed a private LTE network from Finnish vendor Nokia at the APM Terminals port in Puerto Progreso, in the Yucatán in Mexico. The pair are billing the new LTE installation as “industrial grade”. It uses Nokia’s Digital Automaton Cloud (DAC)...
AT&T commitment to fiber deployment prompts major manufacturing investment by Corning
AT&T is working to deploy fiber at a massive scale with plans to cover 30 million locations by 2025. Fiber manufacturer Corning, based on a commitment from AT&T, today announced it will open a...
New Corning fiber manufacturing facility to open in 2024
Based on a long-term arrangement with AT&T, Corning today announced it's opening a new fiber manufacturing plant in Gilbert, Arizona. The company said the new plant, set to open in 2024 and employee 250 workers, is...
"Cellular devices are centric to what we're doing," LAPD commander tells the FirstNet board
The First Responders Network Authority board has approved the agency's budget for fiscal year 2023, with the majority going toward network reinvestments with partner AT&T.
The budget allocations fell into three categories:...
The research noted that only 2% of total IoT roaming connections will rely on 5G networks by 2027
The amount of data generated by roaming IoT connections globally is forecast to increase from 86 petabytes this year to 1,100 petabytes by 2027, a growth of...
The deal will also enable AT&T to consolidate its existing data centers and modernize its operations
AT&T has tapped Oracle to provide additional cloud capacity and capabilities. AT&T already runs database and application workloads in Oracle Cloud, but the latest five-year deal will build on...
Amid a tight labor market still navigating the fallout from the global pandemic, staff turnover in wireless retail stores and customer service channels is having a noticeable impact on customer satisfaction, according to a new survey from JD Power.
"Longer wait times, lack of...
