The idea of a government-owned 5G network seems to be anathema to commercial wireless network operators. But Julius Genachowski, who served as FCC chairman during President Obama’s first term, sees a need for the government to have 5G access. Genachowski…
Dish made another supplier announcement for the 5G network it is building. Dish plans to use a cloud-based business messaging platform from Mavenir. This is the second announcement Dish has made involving Mavenir, which also will provide Dish with cloud-native…
New York, New York — November 20, 2020 — Verizon continues to expand coverage of the 5G service built to be the 21st century infrastructure that will shape the future. Verizon is driving 5G forward by deploying blazing-fast 5G Ultra Wideband…
Opensignal’s assessment of 5G performance in five U.S. cities points to great differences in speeds from one carrier to another. Researchers also noted some significant challenges involving 5G upload speeds. The firm looked at downtown areas in Atlanta, Houston, Los…
Almost exactly a year after it was announced, Verizon and Snap have introduced the Landmarker Lens augmented reality (AR) platform with a performance by the Black Pumas at the New York City Public Library. Landmarker Lens is a product of…
11.17.2020 – NEW YORK – Local startups, universities, large enterprises and the public sector will soon be able to develop and test 5G-enabled solutions at Verizon Business’ new 5G Innovation Hub in Lake Nona, a “living lab” smart community located…
Verizon now has mobile edge computing (MEC) operational in two more markets. The company calls its MEC offering Verizon 5G Edge. The two new Verizon 5G Edge markets, Dallas and Miami, join five others previously announced. Verizon expects to have…
As Dish gets set to build a 5G network from scratch, the company apparently wants to be the first one that people think of when they hear the term “O-RAN.” The company said today that it will work with Qualcomm…
During today’s earnings conference call, new UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel updated investors and analysts on the regional wireless carrier’s 5G plans, which include figuring out rural 5G fixed wireless. In so doing Thrievel also discussed elusive 5G use cases beyond…
New York, NY – November 5, 2020 – The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs determined that T-Mobile, U.S., Inc. provided a reasonable basis for its future-based aspirational claims that, based on the recent merger between T-Mobile and…
T-Mobile just squeaked by the 100 million subscriber mark at the end of 3Q 2020 thanks to subscriber net adds of 2.035 million. Those additions gives T-Mobile 100.4 million total subscribers across all its wireless categories, placing it firmly behind…
2nd November 2020 — Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini, today announces a stratospheric breakthrough, revealing its role in a visionary program to realize the dream of superfast 5G for everyone and everything across the globe. Working in collaboration with Stratospheric…