The Verizon LTE in Rural America program has added another partner — KPU Telecommunications of Ketchikan, Alaska. KPU is a municipally owned FTTH triple play provider in southeastern Alaska, serving 6,000 access lines. KPU joins 18 or so other rural wireless carriers in Verizon’s Rural...
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Bluegrass Cellular announced yesterday that it has launched what the company is calling its “second 4G LTE network.” The new network uses the company’s spectrum in the lower 700 MHz band and will support a fixed wireless offering the company is calling “GetSetGo.” What makes...
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Verizon Wireless Rural LTE partner Strata Networks appears set to be the first small wireless network operator with an LTE-capable iPhone. The company announced yesterday that it will begin carrying the iPhone 5 on March 15 and a company representative told Telecompetitor today that the...
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St. Cloud, Minn., January 15, 2013 — NewCore Wireless, the leading full-service hosted wireless switching provider for carriers, announced today the launch of its Easy Start program, a steam-lined solution for carriers looking to enter or advance in the wireless market quickly and cost-effectively. The...
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Small network operators that own spectrum they have not yet built out have a new option. NewCore Wireless, a company that has helped carriers build and operate 2G and 3G wireless networks, now plans to add 4G LTE capability using equipment from Ericsson. NewCore has...
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Verizon’s LTE in Rural America Program has seen recent momentum with a handful of carriers actually launching 4G LTE networks of late. But we haven’t seen a new carrier enter the program for a while – that is until late last week. MTPCS, LLC, d.b.a....
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Two more participants in Verizon Wireless’s LTE in Rural America program – Bluegrass Cellular and Strata Networks — have launched or will soon launch 4G LTE service. Through that program, Verizon leases spectrum to the rural carriers, who build out 4G LTE service in their...
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Though 90% of Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) members have either already implemented or plan to implement LTE, they’ll continue to use TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) to route and distribute voice and data. While CCA member rural, regional and smaller national wireless carriers are “agressively investing...
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De Pere, WI (September 27, 2012) — Cellcom today announced it will offer iPhone 5 beginning Friday, September 28. iPhone 5 will be available for a suggested retail price of $149 for the 16GB model, $249 for the 32GB model and $349 for the 64GB...
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Some smaller wireless carriers, including three participants in Verizon Wireless’s LTE in Rural America program, are getting the vaunted iPhone 5 at nearly the same time as the nation’s largest carriers – AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. That’s a significant change from how Apple has handled...
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Space Data today became the first network operator to use a 4G LTE product offering from Lemko designed specifically for use in remote rural areas that eliminates the need for the operator to purchase costly core network infrastructure. “Our product is software,” explained Brian Ponte,...
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Smaller wireless operators planning 4G LTE deployments may be able to minimize the investment required by sharing packet core network elements, as an announcement this week from West Central Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent illustrates. As David Fritz, senior consulting engineer for Alcatel-Lucent, explained in an interview,...
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