Verizon offers LTE Home Internet in 189 primarily rural markets in 48 states
As part of its Citizen Verizon business plan, Verizon announced last week a $1 billion investment in the expansion of rural broadband, as well as new programs and initiatives to further help underserved communities bridge...
Verizon CEO: 'Verizon Media will take off in its new home'
Anyone who has followed the storyline of Verizon’s media assets knows that it’s been a somewhat rocky, convoluted journey, beginning with the carrier’s purchase of AOL for $4.4 billion in 2015, and then Yahoo...
May Derby greetings from Lake Norman/ Davidson/ Charlotte, NC (pictured is one of the juleps consumed while watching the Derby with friends). We are going to do as much as possible to conserve print this week because of the concentration of earnings releases, but...
Mexican telecom giant América Móvil's expected launch of 5G in certain markets will not represent a boost in its planned capex for this year, CEO Daniel Hajj said during the telco's Q1 results call.
The operator confirmed it will invest $8 billion this year, including...
Verizon exec: 'The network-as-a-service offering includes connectivity, technology and management layers'
At the end of 2020, Verizon Business announced that it will deploy its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offering, an all-encompassing network solution, to more than 9,000 Walgreens and Duane Reade retail locations across the U.S. in...
T-Mobile users connected to 5G nearly one-third of the time, according to OpenSignal report
Since the release of OpenSignal’s previous report in January, the availability of 5G under all three major U.S. carriers increased. T-Mobile US maintained its lead when it comes to 5G speed,...
GE Research’s 5G Mission Leader: '5G can accelerate the path to everything'
Verizon Business and GE Research have announced the development of a cross-industry testbed powered by the carrier’s millimeter-wave (mmWave) network, referred to as 5G Ultra Wideband. The pair have already begun the process...
Crown Castle finished the first quarter of 2021 with 40,000 towers and approximately 80,000 small cells on-air or committed in backlog as well as 80,000 route miles of fiber concentrated in the top U.S. markets, the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference...
Mid-April second vaccination greetings from Lake Norman/ Charlotte. This week, a box arrived containing an oversized, fleece-lined hooded blanket from T-Mobile (the package also included a loincloth-sized black towel entitled “verwhyzon”). The opening picture is my poor attempt to model the present (T-Mobile’s analyst...
Verizon reported first quarter revenue up 4% from a year ago, but that gain was marred by net phone losses of 178,000. The company reporting that its first quarter revenue was $32.9 billion, with non-GAAP earnings of $1.31 a share.
However, while Verizon's consumer Fios...
ditor’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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
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5G and MEC allow healthcare data to be processed at a much higher rate
While IoT has become a household term, IoMT or the Internet of Medical Things, isn't as well known. IoMT represents a subcategory of IoT that encompasses the connections and devices within...
Tax Day greetings from the middle of Texas (the iconic Underwood’s Cafeteria sign is pictured – it’s definitely a Texas thing) and from Davidson/ Lake Norman. Feels good to be on the road again.
This week, we will divide our time between first quarter earnings...
In its latest round of speed test data collection, Ookla ranks T-Mobile US' 5G as the fastest during the first quarter of this year, clocking a median 5G download connection speed of 82.35 Mbps. AT&T was second with 76.60 Mbps and Verizon Wireless third...
The Business Internet offering leverages the Verizon 5G mmWave network
Verizon Business announced the expansion of its fixed-wireless connectivity offering 5G Business Internet to 21 new U.S. cities. As an alternative to cable internet, the offering leverages Verizon’s 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) network, referred to by the carrier...
Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT platform to business customers and application developers using its 4G and 5G cellular networks...
To make the most of the $45.45 billion worth of C-Band spectrum that it recently acquired, Verizon has signed deals with Crown Castle and SBA Communications to accelerate the deployment of C-band equipment.
Because C-Band spectrum requires new network equipment to be placed on existing towers, Verizon...
AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, Vodafone all working with Intel on 5G network transformation
This week Intel touted its 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor and, in a virtual track focused on telco applications and complementary products, carrier executives discussed their work with Intel around virtualization of...
Verizon and Honda are testing how new edge-based 5G could ensure reliable connectivity between road infrastructure, vehicles, and pedestrians. The pair are working at the University of Michigan’s Mcity, a test bed for connected and autonomous vehicles, on the project, with a view to...
Intel debuts 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor with telco SKUs tailored for the 5G era
This week Intel announced its third-generation Xeon scalable processor which comes in SKUs that are optimized for use in telco networks that are becoming increasingly virtualized and disaggregated with proprietary,...
Last year, SureCall Founder & CEO Hongtao Zhan told RCR Wireless News that he believes that in five years, a staggering 80% of millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G networks will be made up of signal amplifiers, such as repeaters or boosters. While that remains to...
The dedicated MEC platform is fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon's 5G private network
Enterprise customers interested in a dedicated, on-premises edge compute infrastructure can now look to Verizon Business and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The companies are expanding their 5G collaboration in...
Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, as part of the...
GeoLinks said the mmWave spectrum will allow it to offer 1 Gbps speeds
Verizon has sold a number of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum licenses to fixed wireless internet provider GeoLinks, who will use the licenses to cover top markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,...
