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Most cell sites back up in Maui

Lahaina being served by temporary site solutions in the wake of wildfire damage Of the 21 sites taken down by wildfires in Maui, all but five are back in service as of today, according to figures from the Federal Communications Commission. The agency is tracking...

Comcast debuts Verizon-backed ‘Storm-Ready Wi-Fi’ with cellular failover

Comcast has debuted a new internet option for Wi-Fi with cellular back-up using Verizon's mobile network, so that customers don't have to lose their home Wi-Fi access in a service or power outage. For $7 a month for 36 months or an upfront payment...

FCC: 95% of cell sites out in areas affected by Maui’s wildfires

Telecom carriers continue to work on restoring service in the areas of West Maui impacted by devastatingly destructive wildfires. The official death toll stood at 96 as of early Monday, with hundreds of people still missing and the search and recovery efforts still in...

Verizon secures full access to C-band licenses

Verizon dominated the 2021 C Band auction, spending $45.45 billion for 3,500 licenses Verizon revealed this week that it now has access to the total amount of 5G C-band spectrum awarded at auction in March 2021, four months earlier than expected. According to the carrier, it can...

Verizon aims to ‘re-set and redefine’ its managed network services with HCLTech deal

Deal reflects 'recognition that the enterprise market landscape is changing', says Verizon Business exec Verizon is seeking to "re-set and redefine" its managed network services on a global basis, announcing today that it has struck a deal with IT and managed network service provider HCLTech....

Verizon to shut down BlueJeans

Verizon purchased BlueJeans in 2020 for $400 million Verizon is shutting down its video conferencing service BlueJeans three years after purchasing it for $400 million as a way to bolster its position in the enterprise communications space. Verizon bought the platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, which...

How to bring private 5G to brownfield environments

While private 5G is poised to deliver major benefits to enterprise users, there are a number of complexities to deploying 5G alongside existing connectivity mediums, including 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. In the context of private 5G for the shop floor rather than a carpeted...

The Sunday Brief: He said, he said (Part 1)

Greetings from Louisiana, Texas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of this year’s Independent Show.  Pictured are Sally Daniels from the National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC), Steve Leavitt from Connectbase, and Jim.  The NCTC Connectivity Exchange creates a selling consortium of smaller broadband...

#TBT: Top ‘metaplaces’; India wraps up 5G spectrum auction; FCC’s 2.5 GHz auction crawls along … this week in 2022

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Consolidated Comms sells...

Verizon Q2 results impress with subscriber numbers, free cash flow

Verizon shares rose almost 3% in pre-market trading on Tuesday Verizon’s Q2 results offered a pleasant surprise, showing a rise in wireless subscriber additions as the carrier’s aggressive 5G build out began to pay off with more users upgrading to the newest network. As a...

The Sunday Brief: Lead balloon

Greetings from Nebraska and Missouri, where we finally cut the ribbon at the historic Fox Theater in Sedalia.  We are pleased to be bringing fiber to more than 11,000 homes and businesses in and around Sedalia with additional expansions to be announced.  Our reception...

Private networks Q&A: Verizon’s Andrea Caldini (Part 2)

Andrea Caldini is vice president of product engineering and development, global network and technology, at Verizon, and has been instrumental in the company's pursuit of private networks such as its deployments with KPMG in support of healthcare and life sciences, with the Port of Virginia,...

Cellular IoT revenues jump 24% – to 2% of total cellular revenues (but boom-time still beckons)

Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for just two percent of total mobile revenues among the largest operator groups, it said, and are in general decline, with...

Verizon demos new mmWave point-to-multipoint use case

Verizon says the new network design is less expensive to build, quicker to deploy and addresses the 'unique complexities' of distributed end users Verizon used its mmWave spectrum holdings and fiber infrastructure to demonstrate point-to-multipoint internet service to multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in a network design...

Private networks Q&A: Verizon’s Andrea Caldini

Andrea Caldini is vice president of product engineering and development, global network and technology, at Verizon, and has been instrumental in the company's pursuit of private networks such as its deployments with KPMG in support of healthcare and life sciences, with the Port of Virginia,...

Four barriers to network slicing

Considerations include operational readiness, business case development and go-to-market strategy A logical, virtual, end-to-end network slice that automatically comes into being to serve the exacting requirements of a particular horizontal or vertical use case—that’s a big part of the vision of 5G and the monetization...

#TBT: T-Mo tests 5G at 600 MHz; CBRS set to launch; DoJ looks into Big Tech … this week in 2019

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! T-Mo tests 600...

An MVNO killer? An MNO land-grab? Verizon intros global IoT eSIM platform

An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global enterprise arm of US operator Verizon; IoT-geared MVNOs will plug into its new global...

T-Mobile US continues to top 5G speed charts: Ookla

T-Mobile US achieved a median 5G download speed of 220.00 Mbps during Q2 2023 According to the latest Ookla Speedtest data, T-Mobile US continues to come out on top in the U.S. when it comes to practically every 5G category. T-Mobile US achieved a median 5G...

Lead-covered cables from AT&T, Verizon threaten public health: WSJ

Lead from at least 2,000 old cables has degraded over time, contaminating the water and soil in several U.S. communities, reported The Wall Street Journal In a shocking report, The Wall Street Journal found that thousands of toxic lead-covered cables have been left behind by...

Opensignal: T-Mo dominates 5G download speeds, availability; Verizon squeaks out win on upload speed

Verizon also took home Opensignal's first award for live video speeds via 5G T-Mobile US continues to dominate 5G download speed and availability in Opensignal's rankings, but Verizon narrowly beat out T-Mo on 5G upload speeds and maintained its lead in performance in terms of...

MU-MIMO: A boost for 5G capacity and a ‘critical role’ in FWA

Testing on Verizon's network sought to illustrate real-world performance of MU-MIMO A new report from Signals Research Group tested the ability of Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) to increase 5G site capacity and says that the technology will be a important component of 5G network support...

Fixed Wireless Access is the number one 5G application (Reader Forum)

One area that’s become an increasingly important topic among operators is the adoption of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). FWA and the inevitable ubiquity of 5G offers telecom providers the opportunity to deliver new and enhanced services, including security, cloud-based solutions and interactive content. 5G is enabling...

Ericsson readies 5G RedCap upgrade to enable “next wave” of cellular IoT

Ericsson has announced a radio access network (RAN) software upgrade for standalone 5G NR (5G SA) systems which offers reduced capability (RedCap) 5G features to lower hardware complexity, extend battery life, and support a range of mostly-IoT based use cases, notably involving wearables, video...