Latest 5G trials will be carried out by TIM and Fastweb with the support of Huawei
Italian operators TIM and Fastweb, together with Chinese vendor Huawei, said the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) has awarded spectrum in the 3.6-3.8 GHz frequencies to trial 5G technologies...
CBRS focus often on private LTE for enterprise and industry, but what what the fixed wireless access use case targeting rural broadband deployments?
The rugged Sierra Nevada foothills, which range to the northeast and southeast of Sacramento, Calif., are a difficult place to provide reliable...
As CBRS awaits the regulatory go-ahead, operator and vendor interest continues to pick up
In the 5G future--ideally at least--we'll see dynamic radio support for any blend of licensed, unlicensed and shared spectrum. To that last point, in the U.S. the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband...
Mayor Andy Berke wants other mid-size cities to leverage fiber for economic development
SAN FRANCISCO--The Chattanooga, Tenn., that Mayor Andy Berke grew up in "was a steel and foundry city. It was dying. Downtown was a great place to take a date because you could...
This is a critical time to ensure state public safety needs are met by FirstNet’s plans for the nationwide public safety broadband Network (NPSBN). Wireless 20/20 has published a new white paper designed to help state officials and governors evaluate the available information, and...
Smart city initiatives and business development are goals of small cell outreach
While some city's take a combative posture toward wireless deployments for reasons ranging from community health concerns to aggressive siting fee structures, leaders in Berkeley, Calif., are actively looking for investment in small...
The number of small cell sites activated has long lagged beyond projections largely because there's not really a scalable deployment process. Carriers are planning to deploy thousands of small cells, which would, ideally, follow a uniform, one-size-fits-all process. But that's not the case. Each...
Fort Collins considering a moratorium on small cell deployments
On July 1, Colorado legislation went into effect that is designed to make it easier for network operators to install small cell equipment. HB 17-1193 requires cities to give carriers access to public rights-of-way, and imposes...
How to ascertain leadership in 3GPP; quality vs. quantity of technical contributions
Established in 1998, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) united seven organizational partners into one group that works on telecommunications technological specifications that broadly cover radio access networks, services and systems, and core...
Rural broadband coverage is priority for T-Mobile 600 MHz plans
According to an Aug. 4 "ex parte notice" to the Federal Communications Commission, T-Mobile US is looking to "rapidly deploy" the 600 MHz spectrum the carrier purchased during the FCC-led incentive auction that concluded in...
At this point, there are nine states and one territory that have signed-off on FirstNet plans
States continue to opt-in into the national public safety LTE network that will be built by AT&T. Virginia was the first state to join the plan, followed by Arkansas, Wyoming...
Along with my colleague Alice Tornquist, I was on Capitol Hill in July speaking at an event sponsored by the Congressional Spectrum Caucus, a bipartisan group established in 2014 by Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) to educate their colleagues about...
AT&T reportedly in talks to hammer out Time Warner merger conditions
AT&T is in talks with federal officials on what conditions would help its proposed merger with Time Warner gain final government approval, according to published reports.
Bloomberg reported that early-stage talks on Time Warner merger...
Qualcomm executives have repeatedly associated full realization of 5G--something pinned to the 2035 timeframe--as a $12 trillion global opportunity. But that comes with some qualifiers, perhaps chief among them the availability of new spectrum.
Last week Dean Brenner, Qualcomm senior vice president of spectrum strategy...
CCA warns against "dangerous consolidation of critical new bands"
The Competitive Carriers Association is staking out its positions on "5G" spectrum and siting, arguing that the Federal Communications Commission needs to ensure that national carriers don't hoard millimeter wave bands, as well as ensure that...
Spectrum auction rules cap the amount of spectrum an operator can own
British telecom regulator Ofcom recently set the rules for its upcoming spectrum auction to support "5G" technologies, and those new rules include a limit on the percentage of spectrum that any single operator...
In May the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to start the process of rescinding the “net neutrality” rules that treat broadband providers as telecommunications operators under the regulatory authority of the FCC. Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, appointed by President Donald Trump to...
China has reportedly told its three nationwide carriers that within seven months they will need to suspend customers' access to major websites hosted outside the country. Google, Facebook and U.S. news sites are currently available to Chinese citizens who access them via virtual private...
With a major donation to local universities, as well as a separate investment in growing it's fiber optic infrastructure, United Kingdom leaders are working to lay the groundwork for 5G technologies.
The University of Bristol, the University of Surrey and King's College London will share...
Google's Android OS raises EU competitive concerns
Alphabet could be hit with another record fine from the European Union, this time for using its Android operating system to protect the market position of its applications and search engine on mobile devices by limiting device manufacturer's...
President Trump this week nominated Federal Communications Commission General Counsel Brendan Carr, a Republican, to the seat on the five-member commission vacated by former chairman Tom Wheeler. The nomination, which requires approval from the U.S. Senate, stipulates that Carr fill out Wheeler's term ending...
In a complaint filed with the State of New York Public Service Commission, which regulates telecom companies and considers alleged violations of attendant laws, Charter alleges that Verizon is slowing down expansion of its broadband network by being slow to respond to requests from...
States must abide by FCC's FirstNet opt-out procedures if they don't participate in AT&T's FirstNet build
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to approve the opt-out procedures by which states must abide if they decide that they don't want to be part of the First...
The International Telecommunication Union, a global telecom standards body, recommends that all nations allocate 1960 megahertz of radio spectrum by 2020; 35% of that total is needed to support "basic levels of service quality" for 3G and LTE services. Of 18 Latin American countries...
