AT&T discusses mobile 5G plans during MWCA
Andre Fuetsch, president of AT&T Labs and the company's chief technology officer, didn't mince words in a meeting with reporters during Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles. He characterized competitor Verizon's 5G Home service, which gained significant...
Verizon 5G Home service starts Oct. 1
Verizon detailed its "Verizon 5G Home" fixed wireless access service this week at Mobile World Congress Americas, and will begin offering residential broadband plans on Oct. 1 in four markets--Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento. While the long-hyped...
The French telco aims to launch full 5G commercial services in 2020
MUNICH, GERMANY- Fixed wireless access technology will be the main driver of French telecom group Orange’s 5G rollout, the group’s SVP of quality operations and performance Roberto Kung said in a keynote presentation...
Hub home provides fixed wireless to nearby residences
Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., provides a variety of cellular and broadband services businesses and residents around the largely rural state. As it expands a new fixed wireless access service, the provider...
An interview with CENICÂ CEOÂ Louis Fox reveals the interconnectedness and importance of broadband and wireless to researchers and community at large.
CENIC — the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California — wants to connect the state of California into one giant wireless mesh network. With...
Facebook's Terragraph focused on multi-gigabit wireless in urban areas
Densely populated urban areas are centers for demand of more bandwidth and faster wireless speeds. At the same time, these areas are challenging environments to replace legacy copper, deploy costly fiber or quickly stand up cellular...
Rural favorite LTE fixed wireless broadband — soon-to-be 5G —is forecast to grow 26% through 2022
The global fixed wireless broadband market will grow 30% in 2018 and generate $18 billion in service revenue, forecasts market analysis firm ABI Research. By 2022, worldwide fixed wireless...
One of the biggest challenges for 5G fixed wireless access is bringing millimeter wave signals from the outdoors to the inside. The short wavelengths at those high frequencies mean that mmWave is very susceptible to being blocked or reflected by standard building materials, making...
Although much of the dialogue on 5G spectrum in the US has focused on millimeter (mmWave) spectrum, it is not clear whether the mmWave spectrum is suitable for mobile network deployment in the near to mid-term future.
This is exactly why Verizon is concentrating on...
Ericsson will supply Verizon with RAN, core, transport and services for 2018 5G deployment
With the 3GPP working to deliver a standalone 5G New Radio specification in mid-2018, Verizon last month announced plans to roll-out 5G fixed wireless access in the second half of the...
Building on tests, 5G fixed wireless access to support residential broadband in five markets
Throughout this year, Verizon has tested 5G fixed wireless access in 11 U.S. markets, which the company said included “several hundred cell sites that cover several thousand customer locations. Now Verizon says...
