Category: Local area networks and wide area networks

April 29, 2020

FirstNet now has 1.3 million connections, AT&T executives say, which reflects a 30% increase from the 1 million that the carrier reported in December. FirstNet is now serving around 12,000 agencies, according to AT&T, up from the 10,000 that were […]

April 28, 2020

The U.S., both operators and regulators, have been bullish on the role of millimeter wave spectrum in 5G. Indeed, both Verizon and AT&T went to market with 5G using their mmWave holdings; the former, in comparing its offering to low-band […]

April 23, 2020

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, while discussing the carrier’s Q1 earnings with analysts yesterday said the company is still building FirstNet and enhancing their 5G network’s density, but he echoed the general concern of all carriers, their inability to get timely […]

April 15, 2020

Chinese vendor ZTE announced it has secured the winning bid for the commercial 5G Standalone core network in China Mobile’s 2020 centralized procurement for new 5G SA core network equipment. ZTE will provide the core technology that will power China […]

April 13, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission has granted the Fire Department of New York expanded access to low-band spectrum in the New York metro area for public safety communications. The T-Band use will allow FDNY to expand capacity and coverage of its […]

April 7, 2020

What are we learning from this current communicable disease crisis? No doubt, enterprises will ask this question from many perspectives as they seek to understand what happened and to make the optimal post-crisis decisions. The answers will shape the way […]

April 7, 2020

Imagine a being from some future world examining humanity of the 2010s. How odd it might seem to them that workers would drive — sometimes an hour or more each way — into an office only to use a laptop […]

March 23, 2020

Voice traffic is seeing a resurgence during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as more people call into conference lines and reach out to stay in touch with one another. Both Verizon and AT&T report that their networks have seen a 25% […]

March 10, 2020

MetTel on Tuesday took the wraps off of its SD-M service, which was designed to bring some of the benefits of SD-WAN to mobile workforces. SD-M provides actionable insight and control of factors impacting performance, costs and security of mobility […]

February 3, 2020

Ericsson said it has been selected by Orange France to deploy its 5G Radio Access Network in three major French regions, including Paris, and modernize its existing 2G/3G/4G radio access network. As part of the agreement, Ericsson 5G RAN products […]