BROWSING: P3 Communications

New P3 report looks at nationwide network performance in terms of coverage, speed and data service availability Verizon comes out on top as the mobile network operator with the best overall national network performance, according to a new benchmarking report by P3 Communications. Verizon achieved the...

Benchmarking and engineering company P3 Communications is expanding its working relationship with InfoVista. The two companies have been working together for nearly a year on some joint services on benchmarking the performance of new network services such as voice and video over LTE. Now...

Field test engineers help ensure that wireless networks are operating smoothly and efficiently, and help design and assure the performance of new networks and network features. According to Glassdoor.com, the national average salary for a field test engineer is nearly $73,000. Indeed.com pegs the...

Benchmarking company P3 Communications has been busy of late, expanding its operations and partnerships with companies such as InfoVista, and has received a few shout-outs on its testing during recent results calls from wireless operators. During the recent 5G North America, P3 Communications CEO Dirk Bernhardt...

Interference hunting from the skies P3 Communications is using unmanned aerial vehicles to locate interference in wireless networks, relying on high-definition video and photos of cell sites for visual inspection to augment other spectrum analysis and professional tools to find radio frequency interference sources that are gumming up wireless...

The ecosystem support for testing internet of things devices is expanding, with a number of recent announcements related to IoT testing. Test lab group SGS is addressing the new for new test chamber capabilities for large form-factor "things" in the IoT -- it recently opened a...

I write about network test, measurement and monitoring, but I rarely get a chance to actually do it myself. So when P3 Communications offered to do a deep-dive into my usage data if I took their recently launched U Get app for a spin,...

If you've seen people walking around staring even more intently at their smartphones than usual lately, there's a good chance that it's because of Pokémon Go. https://twitter.com/landonsperry/status/753436664412803073 The massively popular augmented reality game transposes virtual creatures into real-world environments and lets users capture them via mobile devices....

Rohde & Schwarz says it has achieved the first validation of RF conformance for LTE-Advanced Pro with 64 quadrature amplitude modulation and carrier aggregation in the uplink, claimed to enable maximum uplink data speeds of 150 megabits per second. The validation came out of...

The First Responders Network Authority is planning to award a contract for a new, nationwide public safety LTE network to a commercial partner by November 1, with caveats that the service will start out as essentially a mobile virtual network operator and eventually shift...

The big news of the week, of course, was Keysight Technologies' announcement that it will purchase Anite for $606 million. Read more on that transaction, expected to close this fall, here. In other news across the testing industry this week: • Cobham Wireless, formerly Aeroflex, added...

In one of the first public views of how voice over LTE is performing in live networks, P3 Communications released VoLTE benchmarking results, which reflected good performance across all of the carriers that have implemented the technology – in one market, at least. In general, the results...

Network engineering and testing company P3 Communications is in the midst of drive-testing Voice over LTE implementations by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile US in the Washington, D.C. area, as part of its first effort for public benchmarking of VoLTE on mobile networks in the...