An FCC antenna rule change adopted last week should make it easier for fixed wireless providers to serve mobile home parks, assisted living facilities and other locations where a single hub antenna serves multiple customers. The commission traditionally has allowed…
Verizon is expanding its 5G Home and Ultra Wideband footprints this month. On January 14, 5G Home, Verizon’s 5G fixed wireless offer, will be available in parts of Arlington, TX; Miami; Anaheim, CA; San Francisco, and St. Louis. On January…
Verizon first launched its 5G Home fixed wireless service across 4 markets in 2018. The carrier has been adding new markets since then and had a stated goal of eventually reaching 30 million homes with the cable broadband alternative in…
How suitable is gigabit fixed wireless for rural areas? It’s no longer an academic question, thanks to the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, a reverse auction that awarded funding to provide high-speed broadband to areas where such…
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,…
Service providers now have a great opportunity to expand broadband access with fixed wireless using CBRS and LTE technology. Fixed wireless capability is greatly enhanced with these technologies, allowing service providers to deliver a great broadband customer experience. The recent…
Verizon already has used three different generations of customer premises equipment (CPE) for its 5G Home fixed wireless offering. And the company is currently working on the fourth generation, according to Verizon Chief Technology Officer Kyle Malady. The fourth-generation offering…
The FCC released the final C-band bidders list late last week. Fifty-seven companies qualified to bid in the auction for coveted mid-band spectrum suitable for supporting 5G services. Although some companies plan to bid under unfamiliar names, the identities of…
T-Mobile said today that it is expanding its Home Internet fixed wireless service to 130 more cities and towns in nine states. T-Mobile fixed wireless Home Internet service is based on LTE for now, but the company expects to add…
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…
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…
On Thursday, November 5, Verizon’s 5G Home Internet will expand to parts of Atlanta, Dallas, Denver and San Jose. That brings the number of cities where the fixed wireless service has a presence to 12. The service, which offers speeds…
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