Dish is building a 5G network 'from the ground up'
Dish Network said that it plans to soon release a request for information/request for proposal on telecom transport services, and revealed its intention to provide standalone 5G broadband coverage to 70% of Americans by June...
AT&T Project AirGig is advancing and they will have their first test market later this year. AirGig lets AT&T install wireless transmitters on power lines, anywhere. This is so much more cost effective for the company and so much easier for them to deliver...
Aiming for 100% coverage with super-fast broadband by next general election in 2020
Authorities in the United Kingdom are looking to deliver broadband access to what it calls the final 5% of the population who live in areas so remote or rural they do not...
Incubation program fosters innovation
The Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence program added six new startups on Jan. 22, with an eye on developing the next big thing in the "Internet of Things" space, big data analytics and smart cities technology.
The six new firms added to the cohort...
SHANGHAI — Germany came out on top in a new ranking of national information and communications technology competitiveness, according to a report released by Huawei at this week's Cloud Congress in Shanghai. The report pointed to Germany's strong commitment and ongoing investment in ICT...
Ministers of Communications from Brazil and Colombia, along with the General Secretary of Unasur, has firmed an agreement to boost cooperation and trade between the two countries. During the Investment Forum Colombia-Brazil, the ministers agreed on the need to implement a strategy to promote...
The Federal Communications Commission is starting to quantify gaps in U.S. broadband access as the agency moves forward in trying to develop a National Broadband Plan, which is due to Congress in 90 days.Gaps cross a diverse range of physical, spectrum and knowledge gaps....
Word hit the streets yesterday from the National Telecommunications Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Services that there's only going to be one more round of broadband funding. Nothing earth-shaking here. It's been expected that NTIA/RUS would consolidate the final two funding rounds. If...
As it tries to draft a national broadband communications plan, The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on how broadband access touches a variety of segments in the United States, including first responders and small and disadvantaged businesses, as well as local and state...
Trango Broadband Wireless said it won a five-year contract with the U.S. General Services Administration. Being awarded a GSA contract streamlines the process for various government agencies that use Trango products.The value of the contract was not announced.Specifically, Trango will offer point-to-point licensed and...
Silicon Valley-the country's hub of innovation and technology-is home to more than 2.4 million people and a group of businesses that read like a who's who of the dotcom darlings. Yet, for all the money and societal changes that were born from the area,...
With multiple technologies promising all the bells and whistles required of next-generation networks, infrastructure developers and operators are clamoring for their place as they determine which wireless technology to put their capital heft behind. Not only must these companies choose when to pull the...
DALLAS-The Alberta Special Areas Board picked Nortel Networks Ltd. to build a fixed WiMAX network in Canada, bringing high-speed wireless broadband access to rural areas of Alberta, Nortel said.Nortel explained that the network would be built according to the IEEE 802.16d-2004 standard for fixed...
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Fixed-wireless operator U.S. Wireless Online Inc. said it closed its acquisition of iSkywire L.L.C., and also entered a three-year exclusive wholesale marketing agreement with Lightyear Network Solutions L.L.C. Iskywire offers broadband wireless Internet service in Louisville, Ky., and Southern Indiana. It is U.S....
VICTORIA, British Columbia-VCom Inc. and ARRIS said the Rural Utility Service has approved their jointly developed 700 MHz broadband wireless system for purchase as part of the RUS Broadband Loan Program. The DOCSIS 2.0-based system includes ARRIS' wireless enhanced Cadant C3 Cable Modem Termination...
Wi-Fi, the much-hyped sibling of the wireless industry, might have lost a little of its luster with the closure of one of its more ambitious players and troublesome security warnings from governmental agencies.The once-hailed Wi-Fi company Cometa Networks Inc., originally backed by power players...
The once hailed Wi-Fi company Cometa Networks Inc., originally backed by power players AT&T, IBM and Intel, has shut down its network due to lack of funding.Since its founding, "the company has made some progress but the segment has evolved considerably" during that time,...
NEW YORK-The United Nations ICT Task Force and the Wireless Internet Institute announced a series of programs to speed the adoption of wireless Internet."We need to think of ways to bring wireless-fidelity applications to the developing world so as to make use of unlicensed...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. two months ago. The results of the auction, conducted over long hours on...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., desperately seeking spectrum, came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. last month.The results of last week's auction were disclosed in...
CARROLLTON, Texas-Broadband wireless services provider Nucentrix Broadband Networks Inc. reported first-quarter revenues of $4 million, down from $10.6 million during the first quarter of 2002. Net loss was $4.3 million, or 41 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $7.7 million, or...
LONDON-European mobile data users are set to enjoy greater competition on tariffs and devices following the decision by T-Mobile to more than halve its mobile data charges and push the BlackBerry device to single business users and high-end consumers. In an attempt to stimulate...
HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavia has long been the most fertile and concentrated spawning ground for technology innovation in Europe. The torchbearers for this culture have been led by global names such as Nokia, Ericsson, Benefon and Europolitan.In 1985, Nokia's main claim to fame was as one...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.—A comparison study from The Broadband Wireless Internet Forum looking at adapting current third-generation technologies based on CDMA as a possible alternative transmission system for delivering non-line-of-sight, high-speed wireless broadband services concluded that the tradeoffs in quality would be unacceptable to consumers and...
