In the next step of its broadband expansion, Shenandoah Communications (Shentel) has announced plans to bring its Beam fixed wireless broadband service to 2,700 households in New Canton, Mount Jackson and Dillwyn, VA. The communities are in Buckingham and Shenandoah…
UScellular said yesterday that it has achieved sustained average downlink speeds of approximately one gigabit per second using millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum and fixed 5G on a commercial network over a distance of 7 kilometers (more than four miles). The…
A fixed wireless forecast from the Carmel Group and the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association calls for improved economics and average revenue per user (ARPU), as well as strong subscriber and revenue growth. Fixed wireless providers increasingly are using a…
The boom in fixed wireless deployments has been driven by a combination of technology advances and greater availability of suitable spectrum – and the fixed wireless industry is eyeing more spectrum that the government expects to make available. In a…
Verizon has made it clear that 5G fixed wireless is a big part of its future and an announcement today reinforces that stance. Verizon 5G Business Internet fixed wireless service is expanding to 21 additional markets. The fixed wireless service…
T-Mobile capped off a week of announcements with T-Mobile Hometown Techover, a contest to find one town in America that will benefit from equipment and upgrades totaling more than $3 million. Communities with populations of 50,000 or less are eligible…
Shingle Springs, California-based Cal.net and Winters, California-based Winters Broadband are merging, the companies announced today. Both companies offer broadband service using fixed wireless technology. The combined companies will operate under the Cal.net name, and will operate over a territory of…
T-Mobile today launched its eagerly awaited 5G Home Internet fixed wireless offering, making it available to 30 million U.S. households, including 10 million in rural areas. The service will sell for $60 a month without a contract and with no…
Rural fiber penetration now stands at 23%, according to a study conducted by Pivot Group (parent company of Telecompetitor) and sponsored by Innovative Systems. In comparison to national numbers, market research firm RVA, LLC reported just over 20 million homes…
The federal government should not use a broadband speed definition that precludes fixed wireless, argued AT&T Executive Vice President of Federal Regulatory Relations Joan Marsh in a blog post late last week. As Marsh notes, the definition is important because…
If at least 200 MHz of point-to-point mid-band spectrum were made available for fixed wireless, the U.S. could reduce the need to subsidize rural broadband deployments, said Claude Aiken, president and CEO of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA),…
Virginia is investing $20.1 million to support 11 projects that will connect 13,400 households, businesses and anchor institutions to high speed Internet, according to the governor’s office. The grants came through the Virginia broadband program known as Virginia Telecommunications Initiative…
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