Non-profit organization Citizens Against Government Waste issued a report this week arguing for an auction, rather than a private sale, of C-band spectrum currently used by satellite operators but targeted for future 5G deployments. The C-band includes a total of…
This year was an important one for Verizon fixed wireless access (FWA) as the company turned up the service using C-band spectrum and 5G in major metro markets. The company had one million customers for the service, known as Home…
Ericsson said today that it achieved 5G speeds exceeding 1 Gbps using CBRS spectrum indoors. The demonstration occurred on a standalone 5G network at an Ericsson facility in Texas. The network was multi-operator, neutral-host compatible. In the demonstration, the company…
New York – October 13, 2022 – After initial testing and friendly user trials of Verizon’s 5G core, the company recently began moving customer traffic onto the new cloud-native, containerized design core, which will offer unprecedented levels of service agility, flexibility…
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told investors today that he sees three enterprise market opportunities that will require 5G – use cases that don’t exist for previous generation cellular technologies. Two of the opportunities involve mobile edge computing. But the one…
Private wireless is seen as an excellent opportunity by major U.S. carriers, but as news from ExteNet Systems today illustrates, the carriers won’t be alone in offering private wireless. Private wireless networks use the same technology used in commercial wireless…
AT&T says that in April it tested a drone-based 5G cell site over a remote rural field in Missouri. The device is known as a flying cell on wings, or Flying COW. Drones commonly are used to provide supplemental connectivity…
Houston, Texas – LOGIX Fiber Networks (“LOGIX”), the largest independent fiber provider in Texas, has secured $100 million in capital commitments from its partners Astra Capital Management (“Astra”) and funds managed by O’Connor Capital Solutions, the private credit unit of UBS…
The idea of using private wireless to support the smart farm gained further traction this week with the news that Federated Wireless has deployed a private wireless network using CBRS spectrum to support a 2.1 square mile vineyard. Federated Wireless…
Dish, Internet2 and Cisco are planning to trial a neutral host private wireless network at Duke University beginning this summer. Dish’s involvement may seem surprising, but dig into the news a bit and it’s an intriguing area for Dish to…
T-Mobile aims to jump start 5G applications development with a slew of initiatives the company is calling 5G Forward. Elements of T-Mobile 5G Forward include a new in-house venture fund, a new development platform, a new innovation center and new…
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