CCA wireless convention discussed 5G, FWA and private wireless
AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless may be the nation’s three major national wireless carriers, but there are also countless smaller or regional competitors, and they face many of the same challenges with moving to new...
Texas to receive the largest amount: $3.3 billion in federal funds to close the digital divide
The Biden administration has announced how it will divvy up $42.5 billion in federal funding for broadband among the U.S. states and territories; now it's on the states to...
CCA's Donovan: 'It's a pretty wild time in wireless'
The Competitive Carriers Association meets this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for its Mobile Carriers Show, amid a policy environment in a fair amount of turmoil, particularly from the spectrum point of view.
"We have a full...
Failure to fund the FCC rip-and-replace program fully will lead to service shutdowns: Letter to Congress
The Competitive Carriers Association and seven other organizations are calling upon Congress to fully fund the costs associated with removing and replacing the equipment from foreign vendors which has...
Rural carriers are weighing the "when" and "how" of the transition to 5G, both in terms of technical issues and business cases. During a carrier panel at the Competitive Carriers annual convention this week, representatives from US Cellular, Alaska's GCI and Wisconsin's Cellcom discussed...
Tim Donovan, Lucy Hodas will take new CCA leadership positions in January 2023
The Competitive Carriers Association is seeing a shift in leadership: Longtime President and CEO Steve Berry is retiring from his role, with deputies Tim Donovan and Lucy Hodas stepping into new leadership...
Earlier this week I have a very interesting and I think important conversation with Steve Berry, who is the President and CEO of the Competitive Carriers Association. We discussed the CCA Mobile Carriers Show coming up in April in Tampa Florida. However, the conversation...
T-Mobile US CEO: Driving 5G handset adoption is "strategically important...given the huge lead that we have in 5G"
In the 18 months since T-Mobile US completed its merger with Sprint, the carrier has been rapidly deploying 5G using its own 600 MHz holdings as well...
Providing mobile and broadband services in rural America "is not cookie cutter"
PHOENIX–In 20 months unlike any others that the telecom industry has dealt with in modern times, small carriers have had to navigate the uncharted waters of a pandemic on a fraction of the...
Network expansion and upgrades, customer relationships, cybersecurity, fighting robocalls, finding new revenue streams -- there's a lot for small and rural mobile network operators to tackle these days. The Competitive Carriers Associations' Annual Convention is jumping right in to all of those topics and...
The need to invest in rural broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide isn’t a new ambition in the U.S. but the critical need for ubiquitous, reliable connectivity has been brought into sharp relief throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, federal officials made emergency...
The need to invest in rural broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide isn’t a new ambition in the U.S. but the critical need for ubiquitous, reliable connectivity has been brought into sharp relief throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, federal officials made emergency...
What's going on in rural broadband policy? There are a lot of moving pieces right now: the Rural Digital Opportunities Fund and the proposed Rural 5G Fund, for example, which together will account for nearly $30 billion in spending cover the coming decade to...
Designed for leaders in wireless, this Award Solutions’ educational session delves into key considerations that competitive carriers need to know today to optimize the path towards 5G.
You’ll learn what 5G brings to the table, what carriers can do to prepare for 5G, get an...
CCA CEO: 'Mobile broadband is an essential component of everyday life”
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday moved forward with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would establish a 5G Fund for Rural America, which proposes to distribute up to $9 billion through the Universal...
Network operators told the FCC that voice has emerged as the "new killer app"
In a call this week, wireless and wireline providers told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai that fixed network traffic is up between 20-35% across their networks, while cellular network traffic...
The list of telecom and tech events which are being cancelled due to the ongoing global outbreaks of novel coronavirus continues to get longer.
As of yesterday, the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) conference, which was set to begin on March 30 in Las Vegas,...
An important part of a VoLTE strategy is understanding its deployment challenges. From integrating new infrastructure and tools to software compatibility across network functions and devices, VoLTE can be tricky to navigate and operationalize. Attend this webinar to gain insights that will help you...
GSMA: 'RCS will create a market worth more than $74 billion by next year'
At the 2019 Competitive Carriers Association Convention last September, Josh Wigginton, VP of product management at Interop Technologies, spoke about the state of Rich Communication Services (RCS), arguing, that despite a slow adoption,...
The CCA convention will have a real theme around a variety of issues related to 5G
The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) annual convention is just around the corner, and CCA President & CEO Steven Berry told RCR Wireless News what to expect from this year’s...
The Beatles may have given us the best advice to bringing more mid-band spectrum to deploy 5G services in their chart-topping song, “We Can Work It Out.” With enhanced focus on deploying next-generation technologies as soon as possible, it is absolutely critical for policymakers...
AURORA, COLORADO -- The black monopole macro sites and gray small cells went up easily, the architecture shifting seamlessly from LTE to non-standalone 5G New Radio and then to standalone 5G. It's just that easy --when all the network elements are miniature, plastic versions...
AURORA, COLORADO--Private LTE may be attracting attention, but private cellular networks are not a new model, according to industry experts at a Besen Group seminar on private LTE ahead of the Competitive Carriers Association's Mobile Carriers Show this week in Denver.
"This isn't actually...
The beginnings of 5G are taking shape and making headlines. Attend this live webinar to learn what 5G brings to the table, the impact to existing networks, and some eye-opening challenges and nuances of 5G that competitive carriers need to know.
• What is 5G?...
