Blair, Nebraska & Hanover, Maryland – May 11, 2023 – (BUSINESS WIRE)–Great Plains Communications (GPC), the leading Midwestern telecommunications provider with a growing, privately owned 16,500+ mile fiber network reaching 13 states, is deploying Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) Coherent Routing solution and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) technology….
New York – Verizon and Vertical Bridge have entered into an agreement to build cell towers across the US to expand Verizon’s 4G and 5G Ultra Wideband services. Vertical Bridge has agreed to construct these towers to-suit with Verizon as the…
Alan Davidson, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, offered information about the first funding round in the $1.5 billion Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund in an address today. The fund, which is part…
T-Mobile, Nokia and Qualcomm employed carrier aggregation to make a data call with an uplink speed of 207 Mbps on a live commercial standalone 5G network, according to the carrier. Despite the similarity to AT&T news, T-Mobile claims this is…
AT&T will make extensive upgrades to the wireless network serving Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport in an agreement announced today. The project will include including deployment of a private 5G network and a new public Wi-Fi network. AT&T will…
People can learn the technology behind familiar objects in New York City’s infrastructure through the “Science City Explorers” an augmented reality (AR) application offered by Verizon, Snap, social technology agency GoSpooky and the New York Hall of Science. “Science City…
Jennifer Artley got the title of Senior Vice President for 5G Acceleration a year or so ago when Verizon Business decided to take pockets of 5G business development from various areas of the company and put them all under a…
In a blog post today, AT&T touted its achievements involving 5G standalone technology, including the completion several weeks ago of what the company said was the first 5G standalone uplink two-carrier aggregation data call in the United States. Like most…
The U.S. has displaced China as the country with the most 5G-enabled cities, according to VIAVI Solutions. 5G networks are active in 47 of the 70 largest world economies as measured by gross domestic product, the firm says. The test…
The U.S. will need another 400 MHz of 5G-ready spectrum by 2027 and an additional 1400 MHz by 2033 to meet the demand for wireless broadband, according to a new Brattle Group report, “How Much Licensed Spectrum is Needed to…
Ookla has released the Speedtest Global Index Market Analysis for the first quarter of this year. T-Mobile had the fastest mobile speeds and Charter Spectrum had the fastest fixed broadband. T-Mobile had a download speed category with a speed of…
T-Mobile and Major League Baseball (MLB) have extended and expanded their partnership for six years. The deal enables T-Mobile to continue expanding its 5G network to MLB stadiums and help the league test automated ball-strike (ABS) technology during select games…
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