The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has appointed Ericsson to offer private 4G and 5G networks to small- and mid-sized electric cooperatives (co-ops) across the US. NRTC is leading the consortium, which also includes telecoms and energy utility Southern Linc, offering core hosting solutions,...
Silver Spring Networks said NRTC will offer its Gen5 platform to the 1,500 electric utilities it represents. Roughly 50 million Americans get power or telephone service from a rural utility represented by NRTC, and the company claims to have deployed almost 3.5 million endpoints....