As Altice USA's new CEO takes over, the company faces pressure from other fiber network operators and new Fixed Wireless Access services, the possibility of a sale of some assets and a continuing focus on selling high-speed fiber broadband services.
New CEO Dennis Mathew,...
‘Customers are unwilling to pay more’ for 5G: Omdia; analysts see 5G and fiber adoption increasing but ARPU dropping in the next five years
Since 5G was commercialized in 2019 (2018 if you count pre-standard offerings), operators have been looking for ways to not only...
Vodafone and Altice will each own 50% of the 7-billion-euro joint fiber venture
Vodafone has partnered with Amsterdam-based Altice to launch a 7-billion-euro ($6.8 billion) fiber broadband network in Germany. Each company will own 50% of the joint venture, which they are calling FibreCo.
According to Vodafone,...
AT&T is expanding its fiber and wireless networks while planning for multi-service edges and distributed Standalone 5G cores
DALLAS--AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg last week at the company’s headquarters met with members of the trade press to lay out a phased, one- to two-year strategy that’s...
Open RAN one of many vectors of network transformation focused on service differentiation, operational efficiencies
In the process of building out, expanding and advancing its 5G network, Verizon has for several years gone through a very material network transformation. In the two previous installments in...
Editor’s note: We are very thankful for friends like Jennifer who are there when parental moves come into the picture. Today’s opening picture was snapped last night as we prepared for the last leg of the “Planes, Automobiles, Hurricane, U-Haul, Trains” variant of the...
California-based wide-area IoT network provider Actelis Networks has claimed it has received $312,000 in orders since reporting a major multi-year deal with an unnamed provider of airport operations management systems to “modernise and digitise networks”. Actelis Networks said the contract, announced on a recent...
Zayo CEO sees edge as requiring data center capacity, networking and other service support
Multiple mega-trends impacting how telecommunications operators strategically evolve their own businesses while delivering solutions for the digital transformation of their customers depend on access to fiber optic infrastructure. Whether that’s network...
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...
Clearfield's CEO Cheri Beranek discusses how ongoing supply-chain constraints are impacting the fiber industry and explores to what extent federal funding will help address this and other challenges related to building out fiber assets and closing the digital divide.
Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 85,000 route miles of fiber
Crown Castle expects to double the rate of small cell deployments next year compared to the 5,000 nodes the firm expect to put on air this...
AT&T will provide its fiber internet solution to more than 750 McDonald’s restaurants across the U.S.
In anticipation of a big change to the restaurant experience, McDonald’s USA has tapped AT&T to provide its fiber internet solution to more than 750 of its locations across...
Cincinnati-based solution integrator, Powernet, has installed big iron DAS in large commercial facilities and multi-dwelling units. While valuing the robust and reliable QoS of this technology, integrators have to frequently overcome the challenge of a costly solution & lengthy installation time of traditional active...
Nokia exec: 'Fiber is the ultimate broadband infrastructure. It has almost unlimited capacity'
Nokia’s research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, has announced that it has achieved a record-breaking 100Gb/second on a single passive optical network (PON) wavelength using 100G PON technology. The prototype, which is said to “mimic real-world...
Always a crucial aspect of business, the importance of connection was highlighted when the pandemic hit. Our guest this episode, Kevin Coyne of Summit Broadband, strives to be an instrument in building a connected community of tomorrow with Summit Broadband's products and services. With...
5G is picking up acceleration. The total installed 5G global cell sites are expected to expand from 986,000 cell sites in 2021 to 6.6 million cell sites in 2027 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44.9%. It is not just infrastructure. 5G...
Greetings from Missouri, Nebraska, and the Dominican Republic, where the staff enjoyed a corporate retreat over the Easter holiday. There’s a lot to cover this week, so we will be very brief in the market analysis commentary. AT&T and Verizon kicked off earnings on...
The partners will set up a joint 5G innovation lab for developing locally developed use cases for the Indian and global markets
Indian telco Bharti Airtel and compatriot tech and business services company Tech Mahindra, announced a strategic partnership to build and market 5G-based solutions...
'The 1 Terabit per channel trial demonstrated the capability to dramatically increase fiber capacity,' said Nokia exec
Nokia and Rakuten Mobile announced the results of a January demonstration in which the pair successfully trialed a live 1 Terabit per channel (1 Tb/s) transmission over the carrier’s commercial...
In terms of fiber build, the "Gigabit Strategy' aims to increase acceptance of new construction techniques such as microtrenching
Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV) unveiled its latest "Gigabit Strategy" that outlines a number of key goals, including the supply of at...
AT&T is explaining their recovery path at their 2022 AT&T Analyst and Investor Day. They laid out their growth strategy going forward after they complete their WarnerMedia divestiture. Based on what they say, they are now on a recovery path after struggling over the...
Gurobi Industry Days: Telecommunications is taking place on April 5 – 6, 2022. Hear from Global Telecom experts and learn how today’s advanced prescriptive analytics are transforming critical roles in the telecommunications industry, including:
Optimize 5G network planningOptimize CSP retail and supply chainsFiber optic network and...
