T-Mobile US

T-Mobile US leads in growth, AT&T balances fiber and wireless and Verizon leans on loyalty perks in Q1 2025 If you’re looking for a quick read on the U.S. carrier landscape in Q1 2025, it probably goes like this: T-Mobile …

Greetings from Mexico, Missouri, and Iowa.  We realigned the start date of the bi-weekly format to accommodate the Easter holiday (and our 30th wedding anniversary) weekend.  We will have a similar skip on Memorial Day weekend in May. The opening picture is …

Kuiper LEO satellites will join the broadband space race Amazon’s Project Kuiper expects to launch more than two dozen LEO satellites by mid-April and start offering service later this year, setting up a duel with dominant LEO broadband provider Starlink. …

T-Mobile US closes on Lumos fiber JV; Airspan takes control of Corning’s in-building wireless biz A couple of major infrastructure deals have now officially closed. T-Mobile US has wrapped up its joint acquisition, with private equity company EQC, of fiber-to-the-home …

5G SA testing with 6-CA pushes downlink speeds up to 6.3 Gbps T-Mobile US touted the results of recent field testing that used six-component carrier aggregation (6-CA), combining the carrier’s low and mid-band spectrum on its 5G Standalone network to …

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 …

March greetings from Iowa and Missouri.  Pictured is Jim with his colleague Marty Smith during a recent facility tour of Blue Star Power Systems manufacturng facilty in North Mankato, Minnesota (more on them here – a high durability product). As many of …

Leveraging Ericsson’s joint API venture Aduna, the telcos will deliver network APIs related to end user security Aduna, an Application Programming Interface (API) joint venture launched in September by Ericsson, Google Cloud and several major global operators, has announced that venture …

AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon have taken ‘very different approaches’ on rural 5G expansion, Ookla finds Over the past five years since launching 5G, the three national carriers have all expanded their rural 5G footprints. Each has taken a different …

Red Hat says that its OpenShift Platform will allow T-Mo US to automate operations and support cloud-native 5G applications Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Red Hat — IBM-owned open source solutions provider — announced that T-Mobile US has selected …

RootMetrics network testing looked at metro, state and national performance of the three major carriers RootMetrics’ data put AT&T’s network on top in at the national and state-level in its network testing for the second half of 2024 in overall …

T-Mobile plans to sell its T-Mobile Starlink service to AT&T and Verizon customers for $20/month per line T-Mobile Starlink has officially entered the public beta phase. The long-awaited announcement came during yesterday’s Super Bowl game and according to the carrier, …

February greetings from Boston (pictured), Iowa, and Missouri.  The last two weeks have been filled with earnings releases, economic reports, and general news.  We will do our best to cover the most salient parts of the past fortnight in 2,200 …

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 includes both fixed wireless and fiber-based services. Looking at the …

T-Mobile Starlink will enable wireless emergency alerts and emergency texting Strong winds continue to wreak havoc across Los Angeles, fanning devastating flames that have, at latest count, claimed the lives of 24 people and destroyed entire neighborhoods. While thousands have …

January greetings from Missouri and Iowa, where one of the two states received a foot of snow (and the other, their northern neighbor, received a small amount yet participated in a string of freezing temperatures).  This week’s Midwest’s weather incidents …

The carrier has started accepting sign-ups for its direct-to-cellular service with Starlink T-Mobile US is now taking registrations for a beta direct-to-cellular service that will start early in 2025. T-Mobile Starlink is free to any T-Mobile US postpaid voice subscriber …

How is T-Mobile US positioned as it heads into 2025? Execs discussed momentum and priorities. At this week’s eighth annual Wells Fargo Annual TMT Summit, John Freier, president of the Consumer Group of T-Mobile US, and Cathy Yao, its SVP …

UScellular will sell a chunk of its remaining spectrum assets to AT&T for a little more than $1 billion in cash, including 1,250 million MHz-POPs of 3.45 GHz and 331 million MHz-POPs of 700 MHz B/C block licenses. “We are …

5G DC enables T-Mobile US to aggregate 2.5 GHz and mmWave spectrum, allowing for a huge boost to uplink throughput and capacity T-Mobile US claimed a new world record with its 5G standalone (SA) network, leveraging an emerging feature called …

UScellular says FWA customer base saw growth, a bright spot in its results UScellular reported a continued downward slide in its total operating revenues, service revenues and net income, as it proceeds with selling assets and shifting its business into …

November greetings Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, and Iowa City.  The opening picture was taken from Kinnick Stadium after the first quarter (note the “Hi Kids” sign on the scoreboard – more on the Hawkeye Wave tradition here), where the University of …

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 on the company here) in Boston earlier this month.  Third quarter …

T-Mobile US collaborated with consumer electronics manufacturer TCL on the 5G RedCap USB-C dongle T-Mobile US has launched TCL LINKPORT IK511, a 5G RedCap USB-C dongle, in collaboration with consumer electronics manufacturer. The new device features the Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF System, …

Ericsson and SoftBank are also both working with NVIDIA on embedding AI into the RAN The topic du jour in telecoms seems to be bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into the radio access network (RAN). The big idea is that operators …