Jan. 19 C-Band activation will cover 100 million PoPs with mid-band 5G
In the run up to its activation of C-Band spectrum for consumer and business services, Verizon executives discussed the network and go-to-market activities it sees as foundational to delivering differentiated, monetizable network-enabled experiences....
C Band launch on Jan. 19 will make 5G available to 100 million PoPs
Despite an ongoing back-and-forth with the airline industry, FAA and FCC around the impact C Band-based 5G could impact aircraft operations, Verizon is committed to activate its mid-band 5G network on...
US Cellular President and CEO Laurent Therivel painted a vision of a highly competitive wireless landscape for the rest of 2021, populated with aggressive offers to entice 5G adoption among consumers. He said that the wireless carrier is optimistic about the business case for...
The 5G mmWave trial utilized Nokia’s baseband and radios and Qualcomm’s FWA platform
Just weeks after pushing the limits of 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) by demonstrating sustained average downlink speeds of about 1 Gbps and peak speeds of more than 2 Gbps in its live...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequality in our society — and how lack of Internet connectivity can exacerbate that divide. Across the country, as students were sent home to learn remotely and workers were asked to work from home, those without reliable access to...
T-Mobile US this week report a strong first quarter marked by 1.2 million postpaid net subscriber additions and 773,000 postpaid adds. T-Mo reported total revenue of $19.8 billion with net income of $993 million. In what CEO Mike Sievert described as a "beat-and-raise quarter,"...
Tax Day greetings from the middle of Texas (the iconic Underwood’s Cafeteria sign is pictured – it’s definitely a Texas thing) and from Davidson/ Lake Norman. Feels good to be on the road again.
This week, we will divide our time between first quarter earnings...
April greetings from Davidson and Charlotte, NC where spring buds (and storms) are popping up all over. This week we will analyze the events of the past two weeks with a particular focus on T-Mobile’s Home Internet Uncarrier announcement last Thursday.
Before diving into the...
65 operators around the world are investing in Standalone 5G, GSA reports
Sixty-one countries around the world have 144 commercial 5G networks as of January 2021, with more on the way, according to the latest update from the Global mobile Suppliers Association.
More than 400...
In October T-Mobile expanded on a pilot project by opening up an LTE-backed fixed wireless access home internet service to some 20 million households. This week CEO Mike Sievert provided more color on the carrier's FWA strategy and how the company's television service, TVision,...
Chilly December greetings from Lake Norman, where “Santa Jim” was busy distributing Christmas treats to the neighborhood dogs. They are certainly an attentive bunch.
Thanks for the many responses to last week’s Brief. As seen below, content/streaming developments seem to occur daily, and we are...
TVision streaming service builds on LTE-based home internet service
In recent months, T-Mobile executives have pegged the number of radio sites their crews are touching as upward of 700 per week in their effort to put the 2.5 GHz spectrum that came with the Sprint...
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...
T-Mobile US plans to activate a Standalone 5G core this quarter and is meanwhile expanding its use of both 2.5 GHz and 600 MHz for service in a number of U.S. cities, as the carrier continues its integration of the Sprint network.
In a blog...
75% of consumers cited fixed wireless access as the most appealing 5G use case
According to a Nokia study, which surveyed 3,000 consumers in the U.K., U.S. and South Korea, 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) is the most desirable consumer use case for the next-gen...
Densifying mmWave 5G while managing deployment costs
The U.S., both operators and regulators, have been bullish on the role of millimeter wave spectrum in 5G. Indeed, both Verizon and AT&T went to market with 5G using their mmWave holdings; the former, in comparing its offering...
TYSONS CORNER, Virginia--Fixed wireless broadband provider Starry plans to launch its service in an additional 17 cities, in addition to the service it provides in New York City, Boston, Massachusetts; Denver, Colorado; and Los Angeles, California.
Starry uses 802.11-based technology (which it calls 5G)...
Cable provider Altice USA is in "heavy testing" for a mobile service launch that company executives said is on track to happen this summer -- and company CEO Dexter Goei told investors that he isn't particularly worried about 5G fixed wireless access as a...
Midwestern internet service provider Midco recently wrapped up successful Citizens Broadband Radio Service testing, confirming that the technology works with its existing LTE network and preparing to provide rural fixed wireless access via CBRS. Midco said that once the final Federal Communications Commissions approvals...
The 5G-based service will deliver a maximum download speed of 2 Gbps, Huawei said
Chinese vendor Huawei and U.K. carrier Three showcased a 5G home broadband demonstration using Three's 100 megahertz of C-Band spectrum last week at the vendor's Global Mobile Broadband Forum in London.
The...
Initial Verizon 5G launch is fixed wireless offering
Fixed wireless has been around since the days of 2G but there are converging factors that suggest the best days are still ahead. In a recent economic analysis, Ericsson researchers see the fixed wireless opportunity as three-fold:...
Verizon 5G Home coming to Florida Panhandle
As leading U.S. operators AT&T and Verizon continue to develop their commercial 5G plans, both carriers marked milestones last week with Big Red naming Panama City as the fifth city that will get its fixed wireless residential broadband...
5G mobility, fixed wireless and edge will drive network ROI
Last week as Verizon announced its 5G Home service during Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles, company CEO Hans Vestberg was across the country in New York at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference explaining...
