Expect some FirsetNet builds by the end of the year, but pace will pick up in 2018
Earlier this week, AT&T and the First Responders Network Authority released state plans for the multi-billion build of a nationwide LTE network for first responders. Later in the...
The International Telecommunication Union, a global telecom standards body, recommends that all nations allocate 1960 megahertz of radio spectrum by 2020; 35% of that total is needed to support "basic levels of service quality" for 3G and LTE services. Of 18 Latin American countries...
Anritsu discusses the importance of spectrum analysis as microwave and millimeter wave applications, including 5G, take shape
As the entire telecommunications ecosystem, ranging from standards bodies and academia to network infrastructure vendors and test equipment suppliers, works to standardize and, ultimately, commercialize 5G, it’s clear...
Spectrum access and usage is evolving with 5G, industry leaders say, noting the importance of CBRS as proof that sharing works
Wireless and networking executives, gathered at the recent Wireless Infrastructure Show in Orlando, Fla., agreed that the spectrum needs of 5G will require innovative...
A conversation with Nebu John Mathai, PhD, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Advanced Engineering, Cognitive Systems
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on May...
Spectrum is a finite resource. And it is a resource that has become extremely useful – necessary, in fact – to virtually all of us: individuals, businesses, public agencies. Picture what would happen if, for a single day, all wireless connections ceased to work.
Yet...
Despite the deluge of news and marketing around 5G and the ongoing lab and field trials being conducted worldwide, the fact is there's still no agreed-upon standard for 5G New Radio. However, 3GPP, the international body that oversees the standardization process, has made such...
Wi-Fi carries a significant portion of enterprise and consume data traffic and increasingly, voice. Mobile operators are increasingly looking to unlicensed spectrum to supplement their licensed holdings to boost performance and improve experience while keeping costs down. Some wireless networks, such as those of...
Wi-Fi carries a significant portion of enterprise and consume data traffic and increasingly, voice. Mobile operators are increasingly looking to unlicensed spectrum to supplement their licensed holdings to boost performance and improve experience while keeping costs down. Some wireless networks, such as those of...
Samsung joins the GSA executive board in pushing global spectrum harmonization
As 3GPP works to establish a 5G New Radio specification, vendors and operators around the world are, in addition to helping inform the standards process, earnestly conducting lab and field trials for 5G and...
A conversation about CBRS with Neville Meijers, VP Business Development, and Patrik Lundqvist, Director Technical Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes...
Why use remote spectrum monitors?
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The use of wireless technology has grown dramatically over the past two decades. The mid-1990s put wireless into the hands of consumers for a wide variety of applications such as cellular telephony, cordless phones, and...
Anritsu Vision software spectrum monitor platform MX28001A.
Spectrum monitoring systems facilitate the identification and removal of interference signals that degrade network capacity. By monitoring spectrum on a continual basis, problem signals can be identified as they occur in real time. Patterns of unwanted signal activity...
A conversation about CBRS with Scott Imhoff, SVP Product Marketing, Cambium
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on May 9.
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CBRS opens the use of...
Enterprises are hearing a lot these days about the opportunity to connect everything to wireless networks, but they know that job one is making sure their people are connected. Sprint is addressing that challenge with a new wireless small cell that the company calls...
Sprint launches wireless indoor small cells
Enterprises are hearing a lot these days about the opportunity to connect everything to wireless networks, but they know that job one is making sure their people are connected. Sprint is addressing that challenge with a new wireless small...
A conversation with Philip Marnick, Group Director, Spectrum, Ofcom, and Cristina Data, Director, Spectrum Insight and Analysis, Ofcom
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes...
New 5G Americas white paper: Spectral harmonization will support smooth 5G deployments
In a newly published white paper, industry trade group 5G Americas highlights the role spectral harmonization across low-, mid- and high-band spectrum, including licensed and unlicensed bands, will support smooth network deployments, and...
A conversation about CBRS with Iyad Tarazi, CEO, Federated Wireless
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on May 9.
Spectrum sharing in the 3.5 GHz...
At the recent Enterprise IoT Summit, a panel of experts discuss what’s behind the initial use of fixed wireless deployments to test 5G technology.
On this week’s “Carrier Wrap” we take a look at the “Fixed wireless access: The first phase...
The carrier may have come out of the recent 600 MHz incentive auction empty handed, but Verizon claims plenty of runway for current LTE and future 5G plans.
Verizon Wireless may have come out of the recent 600 MHz incentive auction empty handed,...
As the Federal Communications Commission works to make the 3.5 GHz consumer broadband radio service (CBRS) band accessible to new users, U.S. operators and their vendors see a big opportunity associated with the deployment of LTE in unlicensed spectrums. Case in point, in February...
Dan Meyer does the worst job breaking down the 600 MHz incentive auction results and says goodbye to RCR Wireless News in his last WOTW column.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes...
Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi notes continued progress in developing SAS platform, benefits of 3.5 GHz band for planned 5G deployments.
On this week’s “Carrier Wrap” we speak with Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi to get an update on efforts to free...
