Hi again from Davidson, where the COVID-adjusted “new normal” isn’t keeping folks from life. Activity is up from summers past, partially due to an influx of Empire and Garden State escapees. We welcome them with a big “Hi y’all.”
This week, our market commentary will...
This week's guest is RCR Wireless's very own Executive Editor Kelly Hill. She takes us through some of her CBRS spectrum auction coverage and explains why she thinks video streaming is the best recent technological advancement. Hint: It involves "My Little Pony."
As the Priority Access License auction closes out another week of bidding, the focus of bidders has narrowed, with fewer than 100 licenses still in contention.
Bidding in the Priority Access License auction moves to four rounds today; four additional rounds are scheduled for Monday.
After...
The Priority Access License auction has raised $3 billion in bids after 34 rounds. The number of licenses that are still seeing competitive bids is now at about 256 counties out of the more than 3,200 counties in the U.S. and its territories.
According to analysis...
Greetings again from Charlotte/ Lake Norman. Pictured is a double rainbow from July to celebrate a week of consistent market highs as well as a pretty darn good first earnings report from T-Mobile. We will analyze four key parts of their conference call, then...
The Priority Access License auction appears to be winding down, with licenses still in contention in fewer than 350 U.S. counties out of more than 3,200.
As of the close of 28 rounds of bidding, the auction had raised nearly $2.2 billion in bids from...
Commercial CBRS deployments have officially kicked off, with a healthy device and equipment ecosystem to support the three-tiered spectrum sharing framework.
The next big step for the technology is the Priority Access License auction set for late June 2020. So, who is using CBRS and...
A little more than a year ago, Federated Wireless announced that the network of sensors that it had built out along the nation's coastlines was ready to commercially support operations in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service shared spectrum at 3.5 GHz.
That Environmental Sensing Capability...
After 23 rounds, the Federal Communications Commission’s Priority Access License auction has raised a little more than $1.6 billion in bids from its 271 qualified bidders.
The PALs with the highest prices as of the close of Round 23 are:
Los Angeles county, CA: $16...
After 16 rounds, the Federal Communications Commission's Priority Access License auction has raised a little more than $1 billion in bids from its 271 qualified bidders.
The PALs with the highest prices as of the close of Round 16 are:
Los Angeles county, CA: $8.2...
The Samsung 64T64R CBRS Massive MIMO radio operates over the entire CBRS spectrum with an IBW of 150MHz
Samsung delivered its first Federal Communication Commission-certified, 5G-ready CBRS massive MIMO solution in July of 2019. The solution, based on the 3GPP Release 15 standard, is capable...
The Priority Access License has raised nearly $832 million in bids after 13 rounds, including more than $56 million in the 13th round.
The auction continues to show an unusual bidding pattern, compared to typical auctions that are dominated by large mobile network operators focused...
Auction moves to three daily rounds
After seven rounds of bidding, the Priority Access License auction of Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz has raked in $554 million in bids, as of the close of the seventh round of bidding.
The auction continues to...
In its first seven months of full commercial deployment, most of the use of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service is being driven by two predictable use cases: Network capacity augmentation and fixed wireless broadband access, both on the networks of existing cellular operators...
Commercial CBRS deployments have officially kicked off, with a healthy device and equipment ecosystem to support the three-tiered spectrum sharing framework.
The next big step for the technology is the Priority Access License auction set for late June 2020. So, who is using CBRS and...
Greetings from North Carolina, where it is seasonally hot and humid. Fortunately, our COVID-19 “stay at home” garden is yielding fantastic results. Zucchini, anyone?
The earnings season started this week with AT&T, Verizon, and Microsoft reporting earnings. As we predicted, there’re a lot of positives...
The Priority Access License auction was meant to be unlike anything the industry has seen before. The sheer number of licenses and their county-level size were designed to attract new types of companies to spectrum-holding and make it feasible for them to compete for...
The Priority Access License auction for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum begins today with a single, six-hour bidding period.
There are 271 qualified bidders participating in Auction 105, ranging from Tier 1 mobile network operators and cable companies to wireless internet service providers, electric...
With PAL auction set to start, the final phase of CBRS commercialization is not far off
The Priority Access License auction for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz will begin on Thursday, with a field of 271 bidders vying for the largest-ever...
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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
T-Mo tests 5G...
Mobile network capacity augmentation and fixed wireless access broadband are the two use cases driving early deployments in the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz, according to industry experts. More than 270 bidders are set to participate in the upcoming auction...
The Citizens Broadband Radio Service has a lot going for it: a 150-megahertz slice of midband spectrum, a substantial device and equipment ecosystem and early commercial deployments that were given a full go-head by the Federal Communications Commission in January of this year. But...
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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
FirstNet opt-ins begin...
With just a few weeks to go before the auction of Priority Access Licenses for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band at 3.5 GHz, 271 bidders are set to compete for the more than 22,000 licenses across the U.S.
The FCC's list of qualified bidders...
