Two rural wireless testbeds will each receive $300,000 from the National Science Foundation, NSF, to further their work. The two projects are considered finalists to become the fourth city-scale wireless research testbed in a program managed by the Platforms for…
T-Mobile said today that it is expanding the availability of its T-Mobile Home Internet fixed wireless service in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. The company began a trial of the service to “select” T-Mobile customers in that area in March…
Verizon has entered into an agreement to acquire the portion of the Iowa RSA 2 Limited Partnership which it does not own. The partnership covers a population of about 51,000 people in six Iowa counties. RSA 2 is currently owned…
June 10, 2020 — CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM), the fourth-largest full-service wireless carrier in the United States, today announced that it has joined the Open RAN Policy Coalition, reinforcing its commitment to spurring innovation and bringing 5G connectivity to urban…
Watch Communications, which has been a member of the Microsoft Airband initiative since last July, has announced broadband projects in Indiana and Illinois. The projects will feature partnerships with rural electric cooperatives to bring broadband to customers in those two…
The nation’s three major wireless carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon – along with Cox Communications and 344 other entities — are would-be bidders in the upcoming CBRS auction, according to documents released late yesterday from the FCC. The auction, to…
Satellite broadband provider Telesat has joined the rural broadband consortium that Mississippi wireless and broadband provider C Spire established last year. The consortium was created with the goal of spurring broadband adoption and deployment. Other consortium members include equipment providers…
Cal.net, a broadband provider based in rural northern California, won $50 million in the Connect America Fund CAF II auction to provide service at speeds of 100 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream to 20,000 locations and plans to deploy…
The FCC today adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on the 5G Fund for Rural America initially proposed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai back in December. The five FCC commissioners argued vociferously about the proposal at today’s…
Edge computing isn’t just for metro areas, as the Rural Cloud Initiative from Trilogy Networks and Chat Mobility illustrates. Chat Mobility is a wireless carrier serving rural Iowa and Trilogy networks is a network-as-a-service provider that has a specialty in…
The highest 5G speeds will require deployment in millimeter wave spectrum bands, causing some industry observers to question how widely such deployments will occur in rural areas. The concern is that distances covered in millimeter wave spectrum bands are less…
There has been a lot of news about 5G rollouts – and most of it is from the big nationwide carriers. A smaller rural carrier that is stepping up is Nex-Tech Wireless, which is deploying 5G across its key markets…
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