AT&T and the Purdue College of Engineering have created a 5G research and development testbed focusing on a new approach to security that harnesses 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) and quantum cryptography Quantum cryptography uses the strange properties of quantum mechanics…
Verizon has expanded both of its 5G offerings to new markets. The company took the opportunity to detail some of the technology underlying both of its 5G offerings in the press release about the new markets. Verizon now reaches 24…
Verizon announced a deal yesterday with Walgreens Boots Alliance, the parent company of Walgreens and Duane Reade drug stores. The deal is broad and includes a Verizon NaaS (Network-as-a-Service) platform for 9,000 store locations. Signaling the scale of this deal,…
T-Mobile already has a technology edge in 5G and has big plans for strengthening that edge, according to the company’s technology president Neville Ray. Ray also sees big potential for T-Mobile fixed 5G deployed in the company’s mid-band spectrum. The…
12.14.2020 — NEW YORK – Verizon and SAP have expanded their strategic partnership to develop and test 5G and compute at the edge solutions. Verizon has lit up its 5G Ultra Wideband service at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA….
The C-band spectrum auction raised just under $5 billion in its first four days. FCC data shows strong demand for most license areas in the auction of mid-band spectrum in the 3.7 GHz band. For perspective, C-Band auction proceeds have…
Verizon Business has in a few months brought indoor 5G cell sites from the test phase to commercial rollout. Verizon indoor 5G is now commercially available and will help expand the company’s 5G Ultra Wideband footprint, the company said. Verizon…
Musician Axel Mansoor’s performance over the AT&T 5G network was a sophisticated meshing of music, 5G, live streaming, machine learning, edge computing, 3D and augmented reality. AT&T worked with Ericsson on the demo, which enabled the singer/songwriter to interact with…
DISH has announced another open radio access network (O-RAN) vendor –the latest in a growing string of announcements about the open standard technology that DISH sees as critical to its plans to build a 5G network from scratch. The new…
INDIANAPOLIS (DEC. 8, 2020) — Intelligent Fiber Network (IFN), a leader among Midwest commercial fiber network providers, today announces it is investing $5.7 million in Fort Wayne and partnering with the City of Fort Wayne to serve as an integral…
The C-band auction gets underway tomorrow, pitting 57 entities against one another for coveted mid-band wireless spectrum. All three major mobile carriers, as well as smaller carriers, cable companies, fixed wireless internet service providers (WISPs) and others have qualified to…
5G networks are up to 90% more energy efficient per traffic unit than 4G networks, according to a new 5G energy efficiency study from Nokia and Telefonica. 5G technology is mostly known for being faster and having lower latency in…
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