With all BEAD state plans approved, vendor selection is starting
As of this week, all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories which are participating in the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program have had their plans for connecting all...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of telecommunications, the convergence of 5G-Advanced, artificial intelligence, and green technologies is reshaping the industry's future. We recently had the opportunity to engage with Li Xiaotong, Vice President of ZTE Corporation, to explore how these transformative forces are driving...
DigitalBridge said that it has successfully completed its buy-out offer for Japanese infrastructure provider JTower, and that it now has a more than 75% controlling interest that was acquired for JPY 70.1 billion or about $466.4 million.
JTower is expected to be delisted from...
Increasing demand for fast and secure bandwidth has resulted in a surge in transactions for fiber optic networks. Everything from smart devices to cloud services has accelerated the demand for scalable, secure and reliable fiber optic networks. Meanwhile, public funding has poured into the...
Verizon Communications has made a deal to sell the rights to lease, operate and manage more than 6,300 towers across the United States to telecom infrastructure company Vertical Bridge for $3.3 billion.
Ron Bizick, president and CEO of Vertical Bridge, said that the deal...
Data centers are a vital component of digital infrastructure, one that is expected to grow at a fast rate and require more land, power and interconnections. The United States doesn't have enough data centers to support the coming demand, particularly the demand driven by...
The Federal Communications Commission plans to "reignite" the $9 billion Rural 5G Fund, moving forward with new rules for the program, which has been languishing since 2020.
According to the FCC's National Broadband Map, more than 14 million homes and businesses nationwide lack access...
Infrastructure company Black & Veatch has sold its public carrier wireless telecommunications infrastructure business to Ansco & Associates, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of telecom engineering and construction services company Dycom Industries.
According to a Dycom quarterly presentation, the company paid $150 million in...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved the initial plans of the states of New York and Wyoming, for how they expect to use their respective portions of federal funding to expand broadband services.
New York was allocated more than $664 million...
The states of New Mexico and Virginia recently had their "Internet for All" plans for the implementation of the federal Broadband Access, Equity and Deployment (BEAD) program accepted by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is overseeing the BEAD program.
This means that New...
Comcast added 322,000 wireless subscribers during the second quarter of 2024, with its wireless customer lines up 20% compared to the same time last year and reaching a wireless customer base of 7.2 million.
The cable MSO saw its domestic broadband revenues grow 3% compared...
Amphenol will buy CommScope's outdoor and indoor cellular infrastructure units for $2.1 billion
CommScope has struck a deal to sell its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business unit and its Outdoor Wireless Networks (OWN) unit to Amphenol for about $2.1 billion.
The transaction is expected to...
Nokia saw its (“comparable”) operating profit slide by 32 percent in the second quarter of 2024, finishing at €423 million, versus €619 million a year ago. Sales fell alongside, down 18 percent at €4.466 billion in the quarter, from €5.438 billion. It put the...
In modern networks, timing and synchronization are taking on increasing importance for several reasons: The widespread deployment of Time-Division Duplexing (TDD) midband spectrum for 5G, and because increasingly exact coordination is being demanded of the network for advanced air interface features. As MNOs shift...
Just what would it take to actually get ubiquitous 5G in rural America?
UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel walked through that scenario for just one county in rural Iowa at last week's CTIA 5G Summit, illustrating the challenges and the need for coordinated federal funding...
'We are in the midst of a global battle over the future of wireless networks,' said Commerce Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson
WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. global competitiveness, the ongoing lack of spectrum auction authority for the Federal Communications Commission and how telecom carriers will continue to support...
In today’s evolving telecoms landscape, providers are faced with mounting competition and growing pressure to provide the best, most reliable service. Many experts in this sector understand the limitations of existing networks, realizing that the true way to establish the most seamless connectivity is...
Nokia reported a 20% decline in Q1 2024 net sales
Nokia has reported a “slow start” to 2024 but said this was expected, and that it anticipates things to pick up in the second half of the year. Company President and CEO Pekka Lundmark...
From emergency texting to revolutionizing agriculture, explore the promises and challenges of cellular coverage into space in RCR Wireless News' new report.
In the report we explore the intricacies of space-based cellular connectivity and delve into the status of NTN standardization and commercialization.
Make sure you...
Three major infrastructure efforts are wrapping up, but an 'aggressive' C-Band and mmWave build continues
Verizon has decentralized its national organizational structure into 18 regions and is heavily focusing on its network and market position on a local basis, executives said during an investor update...
Verizon says it is laying the foundation for O-RAN
Verizon says that it has already deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN-capable radios in its network as part of an ongoing modernization project in which the carrier is putting in place a virtualized Radio Access Network...
CEO Pekka Lundmark calls results 'a resilient performance considering the challenging environment'
Nokia saw an expected decline in revenues during the fourth quarter and full-year of 2023, but the company's results were better than investors were expecting, due in part to cost-cutting measures. While the...
AT&T announced this week that it wants to have 70% of its traffic on open network platforms within the next few years and will spend up to $14 billion with Ericsson to make that happen. In remarks at the UBS Global Media and Communications...
AT&T to spend $21-22 billion in CapEx in 2024
AT&T's returns from its fiber investment have been better than expected—and it's eying an additional 10-15 million incremental locations within its existing footprint that CEO John Stankey said are economically "as attractive as the ones we're...
