fixed wireless access

From the newsletter (October 21; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Nvidia and Nokia are pushing telcos to turn their networks and sites into distributed AI infrastructure, but …

From the newsletter (October 9; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Vodafone’s investor day revealed the scale and shape of its enterprise business, from £1.85 billion in annual …

As mmWave moves beyond hotspot deployments, the challenge is extending high-frequency coverage without simply adding more base stations. Kyocera’s multi-hop repeater validation points to a more flexible network architecture for …

Mimosa Networks argues broadband operators should build for the business case, not fiber-first dogma. As BEAD funding and rural economics shift, FWA in unlicensed spectrum offers another route to viable …

From the newsletter (September 23; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Cambium’s collapse exposes the risks of vendor dependence for WISPs, while private 5G and IoT keep expanding, …

Cambium’s collapse leaves WISPs facing a sprawling installed-base problem, with Airspan’s partial acquisition offering some relief but leaving ePMP and other product lines in limbo. The challenge now is securing …

T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon experienced a ‘noticeable’ decline in FWA download and upload speeds during Q2 2025 and Q3 2025 In sum – what to know: T-Mo reigns supreme – T-Mobile …

Greetings from soggy Kansas City and Cedar Rapids.  Pictured is the crew from this year’s CellSite Solutions 2025 INDATEL Summit dinner.  Nine different companies represented in the picture – an …

FWA services have been a success. What has that meant for testing? One clear success for 5G thus far has been the emergence of 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband services, …

Greetings from Nashville, Cedar Rapids, and Kansas City.  It has been a whirlwind of activity since Memorial Day, and the summer promises to be filled with even more headlines.  The …

Inseego completes world’s first 5G-Advanced data call with next gen cellular router leveraging Qualcomm’s new Dragonwing platform.  Drawing on a legacy of engineering excellence and product innovation—and now under new …

With amusement I read a note by a cable advocate on spectrum. The note seems to be mostly hung up on the definition of what is low-, mid- and high-band …

Starlink is supporting direct-to-device satellite connectivity for T-Mobile US T-Mobile US reported Q4 earnings this week marked by continued momentum in wireless, and strong growth in its broadband business which …

January greetings from Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Iowa — back on the road drumming up business for CellSite Solutions even with Arctic Chill weather.  But never too busy to stop for …

Americans love the internet, accessing it from home and on the road. Until 2007, Americans essentially had two choices when it came to home internet: cable internet or DSL. To …

Only exclusive licensing of additional mid-band spectrum for full-power use can provide sufficient radio propagation and received-signal strength to deliver the increased cellular data capacity required across entire national networks. …

Decades ago, wireless was a new treasure trove filled with small companies with big ideas and lots of growth opportunity. Today, after years of consolidation, growth and change, things are …

October greetings from Boston, Cedar Rapids, and Kansas City.  It was great to meet with Troy Doom, the CEO of Ice House America, one of Fort Point Capital’s investments (more …

Recently, the US mobile operators’ trade association CTIA released data from its annual survey of members. Its headline focused on a very large number – 100 trillion megabytes – which …

The U.S. telecommunications industry is undergoing its largest transformation in decades as the perennially overused “convergence” is finally becoming real. The new convergence reality is that end-user gear is increasingly …

Verizon is expanding its fiber footprint as it also continues to expand its fixed wireless access offering Last week Verizon announced it would spend $20 billion to acquire Frontier, picking …

The GSA found that shipments of 4G/5G FWA CPE are expected to grow 23%, hitting 37.5 million units in 2024 The results of the GSA’s Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) CPE …

FWA 5G wireless broadband may be the next competitive battleground Broadband seems to be gearing up to be the next competitive battleground. Traditionally, Cable TV and telephone companies offer wireline …

The telecom sector is undergoing a significant transformation due to rapid technological advancements in AI, cloud computing, 5G, evolving customer expectations and a growing demand for seamless connectivity. Fixed wireless …

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) 5G is defining the U.S. broadband market, empowering U.S. mobile network operators (MNOs) to rapidly expand their footprints and effectively absorbing all broadband subscriber growth in …