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...
Nearly 70% of the more than 400,000 CBRS sites are in rural areas, according to a new NTIA report on CBRS usage
Use of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum continues to rise, according to a new CBRS usage report published by...
US Cellular is the first customer in the world to deploy the Ericsson Router 6671, which was showcased at MWC Barcelona 2024
US Cellular announced this week that it will use products from the Ericsson 5G Router 6000 portfolio, including the vendor's most recently announced...
Court ruling reverses an earlier panel decision on USF constitutionality
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the mechanism by which the Universal Service Fund is funded and administered is unconstitutional, which imperils the existence of the program that supports...
NCTC said AT&T's network will best serve its members particularly in terms of 'current network availability and performance'
AT&T is now the exclusive provider of mobile virtual network operator services to the National Content & Technology Cooperative's (NCTC) nearly 700 rural cable members. According to...
More than nine million additional homes now have the option to subscribe to the T-Mobile US 5G Home Internet service
When T-Mobile US launched its 5G Home Internet service a little more than a year ago, it did so with a “5G for all”...
The mast will provide 4G coverage and was developed in partnership with Crossflow Energy and Cornerstone
As part of its broader goal of reaching net zero UK operations by 2027, Vodafone is trialing the UK’s first live wind- and solar-powered mobile phone mast in Pembrokeshire,...
Deborah Simpier, CEO at Althea, a networking company, comes on the podcast to explain how the company's blockchain/LTE solution offers a different approach to a distributed network, and why the current internet business model doesn't work for everyone.
Deloitte provides three reasons that the U.S. digital divide remains
Following the digital divide wake-up call prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the reveal of President Joe Biden's sweeping infrastructure plan, RCR Wireless News spoke with Deloitte Consulting's Chief Cloud Strategy Officer David Linthicum and...
C Spire CEO: 'Fiber networks are a must to deliver speed'
C Spire, a Mississippi-based service provider, revealed its largest capital spend in the company’s history: a $1 billion investment plan to accelerate the deployment of 5G — which is began rolling out in October...
When John Deere first began supplying agricultural tools in 1804, it was pitchforks and shovels; today, it’s connectivity and data. On this episode of Well, technically… John Deere's Director of Intelligent Solutions Group Nancy Post digs into how the company is helping farmers improve efficiency and output with advanced technologies like AI, machine learning and hopefully one day, 5G.
The OpenRAN 4G site will extend mobile services to rural communities
Vodafone UK has switched on an OpenRAN 4G site around the Royal Welsh Showground in Powys, Wales with support from Mavenir. The plan is to use OpenRAN to more cost-effectively extend 4G services to...
The Samsung 64T64R CBRS Massive MIMO radio operates over the entire CBRS spectrum with an IBW of 150MHz
Samsung delivered its first Federal Communication Commission-certified, 5G-ready CBRS massive MIMO solution in July of 2019. The solution, based on the 3GPP Release 15 standard, is capable...
A new initiative aimed at bringing cloud-based edge computing capabilities to far-flung rural locations is gaining steam, having gathered more than three dozen network providers and application partners in support of an edge ecosystem to serve rural industrial and smart agriculture use cases.
The Rural...
Satellite connectivity startup Skylo, promising NB-IoT on existing geostationary satellites, has emerged from stealth with $116 million in total funding, including a new $103 million Series B round led by Japanese telecoms group Softbank.
The California-based company, targeting IoT data communications, previously raised $13 million...
