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…
Representatives from broadband provider Nextlink met with FCC officials this week in response to a range of criticism the company has received regarding its provisional win in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. The company was one of the…
Unserved and underserved markets comprise the majority of the opportunity that T-Mobile sees for the 5G fixed wireless broadband offering that the company expects to launch later this month, explained company executives at a virtual investor conference today. The company…
Verizon sees a bigger target market for its 5G Home offering now that the company has won nationwide C-band spectrum. The current Verizon 5G Home forecast also calls for higher take rates for the fixed wireless service At a virtual…
The addition next month by AT&T of enhanced fixed wireless 5G connectivity options to its business fiber network options will increase the flexibility and value of the network to customers, the carrier says. The network currently supports more than 2.5…
Just when we were getting used to the WFH acronym for service provider work-from-home offerings, T-Mobile is offering a new one. T-Mobile WFX is a new offering that promotes a work-from-anywhere approach — and according to T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert,…
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