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AT&T claims LTE coverage edge, FirstNet build more than 99% done

AT&T claims a 250,000-square-mile coverage advantage and that the planned five-year deployment of the FirstNet public-safety broadband network operating on the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority is more than 99% complete as a contractual deadline approaches this week. AT&T—the contractor responsible for building and maintaining the FirstNet public-safety broadband system—made […]

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SES: JP Hemingway on satellites’ role in the digital divide, D2D and disasters

WASHINGTON – At last week’s Satellite 2023 show, one of the topics on everyone’s mind was the future of direct-to-device (D2D) communications. But at least one global satellite operator, SES, is taking a wait-and-see approach. “We’re watching that space really carefully. We’re not active in it today,” said SES Chief Strategy Officer JP Hemingway in a […]

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ADRF: Sun Kim discusses company’s new hybrid in-building wireless solution

Sun Kim, ADRF’s director of product engineering, talks about the FiRe-78-8-U, the company’s channelized 700/800 MHz repeater with a built-in and fiber DAS head end in a single unit. Each unit has been certified as meeting the UL 2524, second edition, standard and supports as many as 8 remote units. IWCE attendees can learn […]

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U.S. cell towers and small cells: By the numbers

The Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) recently published perhaps the most definitive look at the wireless infrastructure landscape in the US, showing 142,100 cell towers and 452,200 outdoor small cell nodes across the country at the end of last year. Because WIA’s report segments infrastructure by type, it offers a clearer picture of the 5G marketplace […]

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6G is shaping up to disappoint, and the industry can blame itself

One of the gripes frequently aired about 5G is that it’s merely a souped-up version of 4G, as if the mobile networks industry was supposed to invent time travel or at least find a cure for cancer. The unimaginative marketers are largely to blame for this with their overpromotion of the Gs as something that […]

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FCC proposes initial satellite-direct-to-phone regulatory framework

FCC commissioners yesterday approved a proposal that would provide an initial regulatory framework for the agency to support supplemental-coverage-from-space (SCS)—or satellite-direct-to-cell-phone—services being explored by numerous satellite operators and terrestrial wireless carriers, including on FirstNet Authority spectrum. Under the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that was passed by a 4-0 vote, the FCC “seeks to establish […]

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T-Mobile’s Ray updates his 5G ‘layer cake’ analogy one last time

Roughly five years after first debuting the concept of a “layer cake” (depicted in the above graphic) to explain T-Mobile’s 5G strategy, the operator’s top networking executive added one last tweak to the concept this week. And, not surprisingly, he did so to highlight his company’s 5G progress against its competitors AT&T and Verizon. “What you […]

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Most satellite D2D services will fail, predicts Iridium CTO

Most direct-to-device (D2D) satellite companies now hitting the market are likely to fail, Iridium CTO Greg Felton has warned. Speaking in an online forum Tuesday, he said the new players are yet to test out their business models. “Right now there’s a lot of investment and a lot of different ideas being tried out and most […]

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UK Home Office targets ESN rollout by 2029, CMA document says

UK Home Office officials told the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it hopes to replace Motorola Solution as a vendor for the Emergency Services Network (ESN) in about a year and intends to complete the LTE-based public-safety network by 2029, according to a CMA document released last week. Home Office officials provided the informal […]

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Verizon CEO tries another management shakeup

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg announced another reshuffling of the company’s front office in an attempt to rekindle investor interest in the company. Specifically, Vestberg: Named Sowmyanarayan Sampath as head of Verizon’s Consumer business, the company’s biggest unit. Sampath just last year was named CEO of Verizon Business, having taken over the position from Tami Erwin. Sampath is the third […]

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