T-Mobile aims to boost sales of its Home Internet fixed wireless offering via a range of promotions announced today under the Internet Freedom name. In addition, the company announced promotions for its T-Mobile Business Internet fixed wireless service and said…
UScellular has launched Home Internet+ fixed wireless service using 5G deployed in millimeter wave spectrum in 10 markets. A UScellular spokesperson confirmed to Telecompetitor in an email that the carrier is using its own spectrum to support the service. UScellular…
T-Mobile has a secret sauce for selling T-Mobile Home fixed wireless service in rural areas that involves a granular competitive analysis of 775 sub-markets, said CEO Mike Sievert on the company’s first quarter earnings call yesterday. The company is seeing…
Verizon was a pioneer in fiber broadband with its Fios product, having launched it well over 15 years ahead of the fiber frenzy we now find ourselves in. Fios was very much the heart of Verizon broadband, but that appears…
After one year of operation, T-Mobile announced total fixed wireless customers just hit 1 million. The milestone was achieved earlier this month. The operator’s fixed wireless service is now available to 40 million households nationwide, with T-Mobile announcing 10 million…
One third of T-Mobile fixed wireless access (FWA) subscribers are in rural areas, according to an estimate from telecom financial analysts at MoffettNathanson. It’s a surprising finding, considering that the analysts estimate that only 6% of locations that can get…
Illinois Electric Cooperative (IEC) said it will use funding received through the Connect America Fund II (CAF II) auction to deploy fixed wireless in rural Pike County. IEC will use technology from Ericsson and Xtreme LTE for the deployment, which…
Verizon has set a goal of becoming the only nationwide broadband provider, said company executives at today’s Verizon Investor Day, which was also webcast. This will be made possible through a combination of Fios fiber broadband, Verizon Home fixed wireless,…
Rural-focused service provider Nextlink announced plans yesterday to deploy fiber and fixed wireless broadband in 10 counties in east central Illinois in cooperation with Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative (EIEC). An EIEC spokesperson said the cooperative is not contributing toward the…
News late last week from Midco and Land O’ Lakes illustrates how getting stakeholders to work together can bring broadband to areas where deployment costs are prohibitive. Midco said it has deployed fixed wireless from three towers in rural areas…
Growth in user demand for 5G technologies combined with government programs designed to improve broadband access are driving expansion in the U.S. for fixed wireless access (FWA). That growth will result in FWA comprising of 9% of all broadband subscriptions…
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