Follows customer-facing re-org also geared toward 5G sales cycle
Nokia continues to reorganize its business and management structures ahead of an anticipated increase in 5G product sales in the 2019-2020 timeframe. In the latest, the infrastructure vendor is essentially combining is fixed and mobile network...
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:...
California-based fixed wireless provider details plans for extending rural broadband access into underserved and unserved markets
GeoLinks, a California-based rural broadband provider, walked away from the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's Connect America Fund auction with $87.3 million to expand its coverage area in its home...
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...
T-Mobile USA executives said something intriguing last week. They said they would consider the use of fixed wireless if the merger with Sprint is approved. While fixed wireless makes enormous sense, T-Mobile has always stayed far away. Why?
Fixed wireless connects homes and businesses to...
If FCC changes rules, rural fixed wireless service providers say they would be priced out of CBRS spectrum
Only on the job for a month, and already Claude Aiken is playing David to mobile carriers' Goliath. Â Aiken, who became the president and CEO of the...
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...
The Australian telco said it will use 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band
Australian firm NBN Co., which is currently rolling out the country’s National Broadband Network (NBN), announced plans to launch 5G trials this week in partnership with Swedish vendor Ericsson in...
Industry experts talk fixed wireless opportunity
While the big four U.S. carriers are locked in a 5G arms race that comes with a good deal of marketing hype, there are lots of small, rural carriers working to extend reliable broadband access in often challenging economic...
CommScope's Morgan Kurk, EVP and COO, and Ben Cardwell, SVP of Mobility Solutions, sat down with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2018 to share the company's perspective on the development of fixed wireless solutions that tap high capacity millimeter waves, as well...
5G fixed wireless access use case brings new set of testing challenges
With the 5G non-standalone (NSA) specification set for completion later this year along with the 3GPP tracking to complete the standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification mid-2018, operators are aggressively looking to leverage...
Charter eyeing 5G fixed wireless broadband service
U.S. cable operator Charter Communications said it is currently carrying out 5G testing in a move to use fixed wireless services to expand coverage. In a blog post, the operator said it's "actively developing and testing" 5G wireless...
Planned 5G fixed wireless for residential broadband is "first slice" of Verizon's future offering, Vestberg says
With its Verizon 5G Technical Forum, and participation in the ongoing 3GPP standardization effort, Verizon has aggressively pushed to commercialize 5G services. Those efforts, for now, have resulted in...
As we talk to people around the world about the benefits of fiber-fast wireless broadband, we hear a lot of crazy rumors about fixed wireless, from the outdated to the outlandish.
Here we tackle them head on to debunk just a few:
“Fixed wireless only works...
Multi-layer convergence and new approach to network architecture in support of 5G
5G is all about more--more capacity provided in a more efficient manner that creates more value for consumers and more attractive business cases for communications service providers. Next-generation connectivity will be realized through...
Samsung asks FCC for permission to test in high-frequency bands
In a pair of recent requests for special temporary authority, Samsung Electronics America is asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to give the go-ahead for experimental tests in the 27 GHz band.
Submitted by Samsung's Richard...
Working with municipal stakeholders cuts costs, increases speed of rural deployments
Of the more than 30 million people in the United States without access to the internet, some 6 million of them are students, Skyler Dithfield, CEO of service provider Geolinks, told RCR Wireless News...
In a recently published white paper, Maravedis discusses the advantages of using millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies, to deploy fiber-like, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). 5G FWA can provide gigabit broadband service using both licensed and unlicensed mmWave spectrum, making it an ideal option for both...
Pre-standard 5G fixed wireless deployments can be leveraged to add mobility
Ongoing fiber deployments can be leveraged to build increasingly dense wireless networks at the macro level as well as in support of massive small cell roll outs. Operators have shown an early interest in...
The United States is big--around 3.8-million-square-miles--and has widely varied geography. As such, providing true nationwide broadband service is a heavy lift. And, naturally, service providers only have so much money to invest in network builds meaning that population centers take priority over rural areas....
Nokia working with Jordanian operator on fiber network build
In Jordan, a country of more than 9 million people covering some 34,000 square miles, the vast majority of internet users depend on a wireless, rather than a wired connection. And while there has been tremendous...
CBRS focus often on private LTE for enterprise and industry, but what what the fixed wireless access use case targeting rural broadband deployments?
The rugged Sierra Nevada foothills, which range to the northeast and southeast of Sacramento, Calif., are a difficult place to provide reliable...
Waco, Kalamazoo and South Bend will host new round of 5G fixed wireless access trials
Building on initial enterprise and consumer trials in Austin, Texas, AT&T is now expanding its research around 5G fixed wireless access to Waco, Texas, Kalamazoo, Mich., and South Bend, Ind....
According to the FCC’s own 2016 Broadband Progress Report, 39% of Americans living in rural areas lack access to ‘superfast’ broadband, leaping to 41% of Americans living in Tribal lands. Superfast is defined as a broadband internet connection of 25Mbps. In practice, this means...
