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San Diego’s children hospital telehealth visits surged from 20 per week to 4,000 per week Verizon’s recent 5G expansion into San Diego included an agreement between the city and the …

Qualcomm has launched a certification programme for combining augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) devices and Snapdragon-based 5G smartphones. The programme will approve tethered AR and VR devices for …

Verizon says that call and SMS traffic has seen a “significant decline from peak pandemic volumes” As stay-at-home orders loosen around the country, mobility is up on Verizon’s network, while …

Verizon revealed a number of 5G announcements this past week With a focus on accelerating the development of consumer, business and government agency 5G solutions, Verizon adapted the concept behind …

Verizon’s network has provided it a consistent advantage over its competitors over the years. The differences are narrowing, according to data from RootMetrics, but the carrier still shows “consistent and …

Web applications are increasingly under attack as valuable enterprise data moves to the cloud, according to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. Web application attacks doubled from last year, to …

Verizon CFO talks millimeter wave 5G, DSS and mid-band With COVID-19-related restrictions emptying out central business districts, shopping centers and large public venues, there has been discussion in the telecom …

  Verizon is beginning to see a shift back toward a more typical, pre-pandemic network mix of calls and texts and is seeing more evidence of people leaving home, according …

Last week on a CNBC interview, Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm discussed how the company is dealing with the challenges of Covid-19 and how the pace of 5G wireless transformation …

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said that the telecom company is pursuing a three-pronged strategy as it navigates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. On last week’s call with investors, Vestberg …

Homebound April greetings from Lake Norman, where North Carolinians are beginning to come out for Chick-fil-A (pictured is the drive-thru at the Mooresville location last Friday evening).  So much for …

Verizon withdrew future revenue guidance in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and posted customer losses that it said were largely due to most of its retail stores being …

Qualcomm has confirmed the releases of a new single-mode LTE-based Cat NB2 chipset for cellular narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) communications, which offers world-beating power efficiency, according to the San Diego firm. …

The Verizon Media search engine has become a potentially life-saving COVID-19 tool  Last month, the White House unveiled its COVID-19 Open Research Data (CORD-19) initiative, an open source, big data …

Wireless is a critically important industry to our economy and society. And it is becoming even stronger and more important thanks to COVID-19. Certain industries will take a while to …

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 …

Verizon raised 2020 5G capex guidance as COVID-19 spread The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to slow the pace of capital spending aimed at building out 5G wireless …

Network operators told the FCC that voice has emerged as the “new killer app” In a call this week, wireless and wireline providers told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai …

Business distancing is like social distancing but has to do with the way we do business. This term has not been used much yet but will be going forward as …

Voice calls and virtual private network use continue to be far higher than usual, as people across the country navigate teleworking, distance learning and staying in touch with each other …

Addressing the capacity loss question around Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Dynamic spectrum sharing is seen as a key technology operators will employ to scale out 5G coverage by using software-based scheduling …

When this COVID-19 or coronavirus crisis first started, I was asked by CNN and others in the media how home internet would hold up with all the home usage. At …

Voice traffic is increasing during the pandemic Voice traffic is seeing a resurgence during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as more people call into conference lines and reach out to stay …

Verizon recently increased its 2020 capex outlook Speaking this week with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg detailed the shift in network usage that has come as millions of …

Covid-19 or the coronavirus is impacting our economy, however not every company is being hurt. In fact, several industries are showing strength and even growth during this crisis. Let’s take …