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…
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Fixed Wireless Forecast: FWA to Comprise 9% of U.S. Broadband Subscriptions by 2026
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…
T-Mobile Goes Bigger, Expands Fixed Wireless Service Across Texas
T-Mobile has expanded its Home Internet fixed wireless access (FWA) service in 57 communities across Texas. According to a T-Mobile spokesperson, this includes new markets, as well as markets where the company had FWA previously to a more limited number…
Gloves Are Coming Off, as Verizon Intros 5G Fixed Wireless at $25 for 100 Mbps
When Verizon turns up 5G mobile service in the C-band later this month, the company also will be offering 5G fixed wireless service in the C-band. In an interview with Telecompetitor, Verizon Business Chief Revenue Officer Sampath Sowmyanarayan said the…
MoffettNathanson Questions Verizon, T-Mobile Fixed Wireless Optimism
Wireless carriers face a challenging balancing act as they seek to deliver fixed wireless access (FWA) over the same infrastructure that supports their vastly more profitable mobile service. And that has financial analysts at MoffettNathanson questioning why Verizon and T-Mobile…
NMSurf Claims Speeds Up to 600 Mbps in Santa Fe Fixed Wireless Deployment
NMSurf is deploying a fixed wireless technology in Santa Fe that it claims provides speeds of 100 Mbps to 400 Mbps with non-line-of-sight (LOS) over links of two to three miles and 600 Mbps with LOS links over links greater…
Texas City Targets Low-Income Households for ARPA-Funded Fixed Wireless
The City of Amarillo, Texas plans to use American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to build a fixed wireless network targeting low-income households. We talked to Rich Gagnon, the city’s managing director and chief information officer about the fixed wireless…
EarthLink Jumps on Fixed Wireless Bandwagon
Internet service provider EarthLink has joined a growing number of companies offering fixed wireless service. The company’s offering, dubbed EarthLink Wireless Home Internet, uses LTE or 5G for connectivity to the internet, according to a press release, and according to…
Verizon CEO: 5G Fixed Wireless Subscribers Consume More Data Than Fios FTTH Users
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg offered an update to the investor community about Verizon this morning via the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference 2021. Among many topics, the company’s push into fixed wireless was a hot topic, with Vestberg sharing insight…
RDOF Winning Bidder Resound Networks CEO Details Gigabit Fixed Wireless Performance
Resound Networks is seeing speeds of 1 Gbps downstream per customer over distances of five miles using fixed wireless equipment in rural deployments in the 5 GHz band, said Resound Networks CEO Tyson Curtis in an interview with Telecompetitor. To…
Research: Fixed Wireless Access Sees Modest Speed Gains Since 2020
The average fixed wireless downstream speed used is 5.19 Mbps, according to new research from Preseem, a company that specializes in fixed wireless analytics and that gathers anonymized data from fixed wireless subscribers located primarily in the U.S. The average…
