The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today that seeks comment on previously established plans to use a reverse auction process to award funding to cover some of the costs of making 5G service available in areas where…

The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today that seeks comment on previously established plans to use a reverse auction process to award funding to cover some of the costs of making 5G service available in areas where…
Andover, Massachusetts – September 11, 2023 – (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Casa Systems (Nasdaq: CASA) today announced that UScellular selected the Company’s new AurusLINK Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) outdoor device to provide a high-speed broadband internet solution for homes and businesses. Casa Systems’ AurusLINK was…
UScellular will be expanding its 5G network three months earlier than anticipated because it has received full access to the 5G C-band spectrum it was awarded in March 2021 in Auction 107. The mobile carrier has prepared more than 440…
Unalaska, Alaska – August 15, 2023 – This week GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications provider, successfully turned up 5G mobile service in Unalaska, bringing customers lightning-fast data speeds and even more reliable voice service. The company also launched voice over LTE (VoLTE)…
Verizon expects to expand its higher-speed 5G service, dubbed Ultra Wideband, now that all the spectrum it won in the 2021 C-band auction has been cleared. The spectrum also will support the company’s 5G Home fixed wireless offering and business…
New York – Verizon Business today announced a strategic global partnership making HCLTech its primary Managed Network Services (MNS) collaborator in all networking deployments for global enterprise customers, bringing together two global leaders in enterprise networking. The partnership combines Verizon’s networking…
UScellular is aiming at deploying private wireless networks in a number of industry segments. Initially, the focus will be on industry 4.0 manufacturing, logistics, distribution and warehouse use cases. The second group of target verticals will be hospitals, the industrial…
More than 20% of the 535 operators known to be investing in 5G have made investments in public 5G standalone (SA) networks, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). The organization says that 115 operators in 52 countries and…
AT&T sees a significant role for a new internet of things (IoT) standard known as RedCap or NR Light. The company sees it as a sort of Goldilocks standard — not as complex as 5G NR but more versatile than…
iOS developers in Seattle and San Francisco are the first to have access to T-Mobile’s 5G network slicing beta, which will focus on video calling. The beta launched today. The beta is expected to expand nationwide and to Android later…
T-Mobile said today that it has launched four-carrier aggregation in parts of its 5G standalone network and expects to launch the technology nationwide “in the coming weeks.” As T-Mobile explained in a press release today, the company is combining four…
U.S. wireless networks supported more data traffic than ever in 2022 — 73 trillion megabytes (MB ) – 38% higher than for the previous year, according to CTIA’s 2023 Annual Wireless Industry Survey. The wireless data demand increase was the…
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