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The Sunday Brief: 3Q earnings questions (Part 2)

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...

Verizon on what it means to be AI-native

A pragmatic approach to telco AI can drive short-term operational benefits and customer experience enhancements As it looks to leverage AI across its business, Verizon Vice President of AI and Data Michael Raj emphasized that underlying any successful AI strategy is a sound data strategy....

Verizon Value Brands and MobileX cut high profile at prepaid conference (Analyst Angle)

Verizon Value Brands and MobileX both cut a high profile at the All Wireless & Prepaid Expo and the expo also provided a venue for some spirited exchanges between carriers. The conference was held in Las Vegas in late August. Verizon Value Brands and MobileX...

The Sunday Brief: 3Q earnings questions (Part 1)

October greetings from Virginia, Iowa, Missouri and Massachusetts.  Our hearts go out to those impacted by Hurricane Helene.  CellSite is providing civil construction services to several tower companies and service providers impacted by substantial flooding.  Even though the storm hit last Saturday, there are...

#TBT: Vodafone/Three UK merger revealed; T-Mo US asks for 2.5 GHz; Orange talks Open RAN, AI/ML… this week in 2022

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...

Verizon network outage impacts customers

A Verizon network outage impacted customers across the United States on Monday, and the carrier has not yet publicly identified a cause. The outage reports extended beyond the known outages caused by Hurricane Helene in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. According to customer-reported issues...

Verizon strikes $3.3B tower deal with Vertical Bridge

Verizon Communications has made a deal to sell the rights to lease, operate and manage more than 6,300 towers across the United States to telecom infrastructure company Vertical Bridge for $3.3 billion. Ron Bizick, president and CEO of Vertical Bridge, said that the deal...

RAN tricks, IT kicks, API blitz – we will make ‘best’ private 5G ‘in the world’, says Ericsson

Note: sign up here to join the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October 10, featuring speakers from Ericsson, EXFO, Verizon Business, and others. This article is continued from here. The big...

Verizon named official telecom sponsor for FIFA World Cup 2026

Verizon will supply FIFA with connectivity services across stadiums and other operation sites Verizon has been designated the FIFA official telecommunication sponsor for the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Canada, Mexico and the U.S., as well as a tournament supporter in the U.S for the FIFA...

Verizon supplies 5G and IoT to remote-controlled EV hire service in Las Vegas

Verizon Business has signed a deal with Germany-based automotive technology startup Vay Technology to supply 5G to its rental fleet of remotely operated electric vehicles (EVs) in Las Vegas. The enterprise division of the US carrier is also providing custom IoT data plans, it...

The Sunday Brief: T-Mobile Capital Markets Day—what it takes to be a champion

September greetings from Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, and Charlottesville where we are attending a family wedding (picture is of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia).  A terrific celebration with family and friends and congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs.   There is plenty of...

Verizon Frontline survey shows first responders are optimistic about 5G, AI

The majority of public safety professionals consider AI a top priority, but see 5G as the most impactful technology, reveals Verizon survey The fourth iteration of Verizon Frontline’s survey of nearly 1,700 public safety professionals revealed that network reliability and resiliency are a top priority....

Verizon CEO: Frontier acquisition ‘is straight into our strategy’ 

Verizon is expanding its fiber footprint as it also continues to expand its fixed wireless access offering Last week Verizon announced it would spend $20 billion to acquire Frontier, picking up the latter’s customer base and fiber assets. Speaking this week at the Goldman Sachs...

The Sunday Brief: Why Frontier? Why now?

September greetings from Kansas City and Cedar Rapids.  Pictured is the CellSite Solutions indoor gantry crane moving one of September’s remufacturing shelter projects into place (twenty tons of project in this case).  The team completely rebuilds each one to customer specifications, then delivers to...

Verizon to expand fiber footprint with $20 billion Frontier acquisition

Owner’s economics guide Verizon fiber plans; combining mobility and broadband drive network convergence strategy At the Bank of American 2024 Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference yesterday, Sept. 4, BoA’s David Barden tried mightily to get Verizon's Sowmyanarayan Sampath, president and CEO of the Consumer Group,...

#TBT: Nokia pushes 4.5G; Apple intros AirPods; ZTE plans Europe expansion … this week in 2016

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! Ahead of 5G,...

#TBT: Telecom APIs and monetization; AT&T on network convergence; Verizon preps for VoLTE … this week in 2014

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! Telecom APIs seen...

Get ready to ‘text anywhere’ — Verizon to launch satellite-based messaging with Skylo

Starting this fall, some Verizon customers will be able to use emergency messaging and location sharing Verizon has partnered with California-based Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communications provider Skylo to enable direct-to-device messaging service for the carrier’s customers using “certain” smartphones. Starting this fall, some Verizon customers...

The Sunday Brief: 2Q earnings review—when history rhymes (Part 2)

August greetings from Cedar Rapids and Kansas City.  This week’s opening picture comes courtesy of the 49th Annual St Jude’s Sweet Corn Festival held from August 9-11 in Cedar Rapids.  The weather and food were quintissential Iowa.  Next up: experiencing Iowa Hawkeye football – stay...

Network slicing – a useful 5G tool (but not more) to build enterprise solutions

One thing seems clear, after a couple of announcements in recent weeks and several years in the doldrums: network slicing is coming, and it will make a new virtue of nationally-available 5G networks for enterprises. Last week, the analyst community debunked a few myths...

The Sunday Brief: 2Q earnings review—when history rhymes (Part 1)

July and August greetings from Nashville, Boston, Cedar Rapids, St. Louis, and Kansas City.  Pictured is our wonderful view from the Cardinals-Royals game on Saturday  No one complained about the cooler than average August temperatures.  And, after a heartbreaking loss on Friday, the Royals...

Verizon to use AI, ML to prevent fiber damage from excavations

Verizon will use AI to sort through more than the ten million dig requests made annually to identify high-risk excavations Verizon is utilizing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to prevent damage to its fiber infrastructure caused by accidental cuts during...

Half of workers in critical industry hit by cyber attacks – IoT is to blame, says Verizon

More than half of workers in critical industrial sectors have experienced “severe security incidents” that have led to data loss or system downtime, and industrial IoT devices have been blamed. A new poll by US operator Verizon of 600-odd executives in charge of security...

The Sunday Brief: 2Q earnings review—facts are stubborn things

July greetings from Cedar Rapids, Kansas City and, by the time most of you read this, Nashville, the home of this year’s Fiber Connect conference.  The schedule is full for both days; the evening reception on Monday will be the best time to catch...