Washington, D.C. – Today, the Rural Wireless Association (RWA) released its Open RAN Resource Guide (Guide) which is designed to help RWA members navigate the Open RAN landscape. The Guide, coordinated by RWA’s Technology Committee, is available to the public and…
Thayne, WY April 19, 2022 – Silver Star announced today that the company would discontinue its cellular service in Star Valley, WY, effective December 30, 2022. In 2005 Silver Star began offering cellular service to fill a need in the…
The way T-Mobile sees it, about 40% of the U.S. population lives in smaller markets and rural areas – and the company expects to see strong growth in those areas moving forward. Those markets now represent one third of the…
Regional wireless operator Cellcom’s 5G launch in parts of three largely rural Wisconsin counties is just the beginning of the carrier’s 5G plans. We talked to Cellcom CEO Brighid Riordan and CTO Rick Brooks about those plans. Cellcom is relying…
The FCC today released a public notice listing all the companies that applied for funding to rip-and-replace Huawei equipment deemed to be a national security risk. In the notice, the commission also offered its take on why requested funding was…
News late last week from Midco and Land O’ Lakes illustrates how getting stakeholders to work together can bring broadband to areas where deployment costs are prohibitive. Midco said it has deployed fixed wireless from three towers in rural areas…
T-Mobile has expanded its Home Internet fixed wireless access (FWA) service in 57 communities across Texas. According to a T-Mobile spokesperson, this includes new markets, as well as markets where the company had FWA previously to a more limited number…
At the same time that the government is making unprecedented funding available for broadband, it also is considering setting more ambitious broadband goals. A new set of ambitious goals came this week from the FCC Precision Agriculture Task Force which,…
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, as news today from AT&T about connected cows illustrates. In a development reminiscent of the 1960s sci-fi movie “Fantastic Voyage,” AT&T has inked a deal to provide wireless connectivity for smaXtec, developer of sensors…
Private wireless networks are poised to play an important role on the nation’s farms, potentially creating opportunities for rural network operators, as news this week from Inland Cellular and edge computing provider Trilogy Networks illustrates. We talked to Venky Swaminathan,…
Verizon reportedly has acquired or is in the process of acquiring the LTE mobile network of Chariton Valley Communications Corporation, a small Missouri wireless provider that was a partner in the Verizon LTE in Rural America program. Verizon previously announced…
Should smaller MSOs enter the wireless market? Maybe, says CoBank Fundamental changes in the wired and wireless landscape should lead small cable operators to look at the wireless market, according to a study by CoBank. The problem for the cable…
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