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AT&T and Comcast are joining 5G OI Lab as founding partners 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced that U.S. operators AT&T and Comcast have joined its innovation ecosystem as founding partners. The two companies join the 18 founding …

‘Lease to purchase’ arrangement allows Comcast a window to reclaim the airwaves Comcast is feeling so confident about its ability to make use of the CBRS band for mobile 5G services that it is willing to let its 600 MHz …

60% of Comcast’s network traffic comes from 3% of its geography, CEO says Comcast is getting ready to activate Philadelphia as a trial market for cellular offload, as it explores what combination of its existing MVNO relationship with Verizon and …

Labor Day weekend greetings from Louisiana, Texas and Missouri.  Pictured is the Venture Global LNG plant in Cameron, Louisiana.  Over the last two years, we’ve passed by many times and continue to be amazed at the scale of their operation.  …

Spectrum Mobile from Charter costs less and offers a more reliable connection to wireless data service compared to Xfinity Mobile from Comcast. The problem is these two companies do not compete. That means there is zero competitive pressure to keep …

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 …

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 …

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 …

MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They are an extension of its hybrid Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRaWAN real-time location system (RTLS) …

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 …

Greetings from Nebraska and Missouri.  Pictured are the balloons from the Friday night glow at the Sedalia Hot Air Balloon and Kite Festival this past weekend.  It was spectacular, and Fastwyre was proud to be a sponsor.  Fortunately, the rains …

Greetings from Georgia, Nebraska, Missouri and Louisiana.  We look forward to cutting the ribbon and launching service in Warrensburg and Knob Noster (home of Whiteman AFB) this week.  If you are in the area, please join us in celebrating competition …

Tax weekend greetings from Missouri, Nebraska, Louisiana, Texas and Jamacia.  No, Fastwyre is not going global, but the staff of the Brief took part in a long-needed vacation to one of the largest and friendliest islands in the Caribbean.  Pictured …

Greetings from the Southeast and the Midwest as winter transitions into spring.  In this Brief, after a full market commentary, we will provide a retrospective on larger macro trends since the 2020 shutdown (pictured is Bossy Beulah’s, a favorite lunch …

Comcast and Celona have deployed a private 4G/5G network using the CBRS band at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. The network has already provided support for back-of-house operations at a number of events, including the annual Sonoma …

Thanksgiving weekend greetings from the Midwest.  Pictured is a flock of wild turkeys near the farm in Willard celebrating the “day after” (if only we had audio – they are not quiet!). This week, we will continue our discussion of …

Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to hail the “success” of …

Dennis Mathew is the new CEO of Altice USA, one of the nation’s largest cable television companies. The good news is he comes from Comcast, the nation’s largest and most successful cable TV giant. So, the hope is, the lessons …

Halloween weekend greetings from the Midwest, where fall colors are in full show and temperatures are still above freezing.  Pictured is my neighbor’s Trick-or-Treat Treehouse moments before a dozen costumed boys showed up for their annual party.  With each of …

Mid-September greetings from the Midwest, Georgia and Alabama, where we are wrapping up our Moundville Telephone Company acquisition.  Pictured is Tuska, a 7-ton elephant statue that was recently moved to the Bryant-Denny stadium in Tuscaloosa.  Legend has it that the association …

The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) this week confirmed the release of the 1.0 launch-version of the new Matter connectivity specification for interoperability of IoT products, mainly in the smart home environment. This initial release will support various smart home products, …

Samsung is delivering CBRS and 600 MHz equipment that will help Comcast expand its capacity and coverage in select areas Comcast announced that Samsung Electronics is providing it with 5G Radio Access Network equipment that will be used to boost …

Two thirds (67 percent) of enterprises want to see a return on their IoT investments (ROI) within 12 months of starting-out, and yet almost half (49 percent) reckon the biggest roadblock to ROI is long deployment times. Clearly something is …

Initial roll-outs are already underway in Colorado, Georgia and Florida Comcast has announced that it is in the midst of a major network upgrade that includes plans to offer multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds and Wi-Fi 6 to customers starting next year. …

If you are a Xfinity Mobile customer, you may have heard about their lower price offer. If you are considering this, there is something you need to be aware of. In recent years, Comcast has been showing growth with wireless …