Leveraging Ericsson's joint API venture Aduna, the telcos will deliver network APIs related to end user security
Aduna, an Application Programming Interface (API) joint venture launched in September by Ericsson, Google Cloud and several major global operators, has announced that venture partners AT&T, T-Mobile US and...
AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon have taken 'very different approaches' on rural 5G expansion, Ookla finds
Over the past five years since launching 5G, the three national carriers have all expanded their rural 5G footprints. Each has taken a different strategy, however, driven primarily by...
Red Hat says that its OpenShift Platform will allow T-Mo US to automate operations and support cloud-native 5G applications
Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Red Hat — IBM-owned open source solutions provider — announced that T-Mobile US has selected the Red Hat OpenShift Platform...
RootMetrics network testing looked at metro, state and national performance of the three major carriers
RootMetrics' data put AT&T's network on top in at the national and state-level in its network testing for the second half of 2024 in overall network performance. But Verizon and...
T-Mobile plans to sell its T-Mobile Starlink service to AT&T and Verizon customers for $20/month per line
T-Mobile Starlink has officially entered the public beta phase. The long-awaited announcement came during yesterday’s Super Bowl game and according to the carrier, its direct-to-device (D2D) satellite service...
February greetings from Boston (pictured), Iowa, and Missouri. The last two weeks have been filled with earnings releases, economic reports, and general news. We will do our best to cover the most salient parts of the past fortnight in 2,200 words or less.
Specifically, we...
Starlink is supporting direct-to-device satellite connectivity for T-Mobile US
T-Mobile US reported Q4 earnings this week marked by continued momentum in wireless, and strong growth in its broadband business which includes both fixed wireless and fiber-based services. Looking at the rest of 2025, T-Mobile CEO...
T-Mobile Starlink will enable wireless emergency alerts and emergency texting
Strong winds continue to wreak havoc across Los Angeles, fanning devastating flames that have, at latest count, claimed the lives of 24 people and destroyed entire neighborhoods. While thousands have been evacuated and thousands of...
January greetings from Missouri and Iowa, where one of the two states received a foot of snow (and the other, their northern neighbor, received a small amount yet participated in a string of freezing temperatures). This week’s Midwest’s weather incidents pale in comparison to...
The carrier has started accepting sign-ups for its direct-to-cellular service with Starlink
T-Mobile US is now taking registrations for a beta direct-to-cellular service that will start early in 2025.
T-Mobile Starlink is free to any T-Mobile US postpaid voice subscriber with a compatible device, the carrier...
How is T-Mobile US positioned as it heads into 2025? Execs discussed momentum and priorities.
At this week's eighth annual Wells Fargo Annual TMT Summit, John Freier, president of the Consumer Group of T-Mobile US, and Cathy Yao, its SVP of investor relations, discussed T-Mo's...
UScellular will sell a chunk of its remaining spectrum assets to AT&T for a little more than $1 billion in cash, including 1,250 million MHz-POPs of 3.45 GHz and 331 million MHz-POPs of 700 MHz B/C block licenses.
"We are pleased with the significant value...
5G DC enables T-Mobile US to aggregate 2.5 GHz and mmWave spectrum, allowing for a huge boost to uplink throughput and capacity
T-Mobile US claimed a new world record with its 5G standalone (SA) network, leveraging an emerging feature called New Radio Dual Connectivity (5G...
UScellular says FWA customer base saw growth, a bright spot in its results
UScellular reported a continued downward slide in its total operating revenues, service revenues and net income, as it proceeds with selling assets and shifting its business into being a telecom infrastructure provider...
November greetings Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, and Iowa City. The opening picture was taken from Kinnick Stadium after the first quarter (note the “Hi Kids” sign on the scoreboard – more on the Hawkeye Wave tradition here), where the University of Iowa Hawkeyes thumped the...
October greetings from Boston, Cedar Rapids, and Kansas City. It was great to meet with Troy Doom, the CEO of Ice House America, one of Fort Point Capital’s investments (more on the company here) in Boston earlier this month. Third quarter earnings start next week...
T-Mobile US collaborated with consumer electronics manufacturer TCL on the 5G RedCap USB-C dongle
T-Mobile US has launched TCL LINKPORT IK511, a 5G RedCap USB-C dongle, in collaboration with consumer electronics manufacturer. The new device features the Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF System, offers peak data rates of...
Ericsson and SoftBank are also both working with NVIDIA on embedding AI into the RAN
The topic du jour in telecoms seems to be bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into the radio access network (RAN). The big idea is that operators could use AI for dynamic...
The direct-to-cellular service is pre-commercial, but it has been activated in parts of North Carolina to help the hurricane recovery effort
The Federal Communications Commission has given permission for T-Mobile US and Elon Musk's Starlink LEO satellite service to offer direct-to-cellular service to T-Mobile US...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Vodafone confirms talks...
Network operators are racing to restore connectivity across five Southeastern states devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Cellular networks across the Appalachian Mountains were taken out by the storm, which blew ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and then barreled northward, dumping feet of rain,...
Working with OpenAI, T-Mobile US is trying to deliver predictive, "fairly magical" customer experiences
T-Mobile US is working with artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse OpenAI on a new customer-facing “intent-driven AI-decisioning platform.” The companies expect IntentCX, which combines T-Mo’s proprietary data with OpenAI’s powerful GPT series...
Ericsson, Nokia, NVIDIA, T-Mobile US establish the AI RAN Innovation Center
As T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert pointed out during the carrier’s recent Capital Markets Day, delivering cellular connectivity is “harder than it looks.” As such, T-Mo is looking to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to...
T-Mobile US said it hopes to eventually create an AI blueprint that will applicable across industries
T-Mobile US has given ChatGPT creator OpenAI access to its customer data as part of a collaboration aimed at the development of an “intent-driven AI-decisioning platform.” The platform, called...
