DISH Network asked the FCC for a temporary license to use 600 MHz spectrum band licenses owned by another licensee for 5G tests in Las Vegas and Denver. The company said in an STA filing the owner of the spectrum, Bluewater Wireless II, agreed to allow DISH to use it. […]
Month: September 2021
For George Kerstetter, National Solutions Engineer for PerfectVision, this time each year has caused a lot of emotion to come through, and has for the past two decades, as the world remembers the events on 9/11/2001. Kerstetter was an Operations Manager at Verizon in Upstate New York on that fateful […]
Airspan CEO Eric Stonestrom Appointed as 5G Americas Board of Governors Representative BELLEVUE, Wash. September 9, 2021– 5G Americas, the wireless industry trade consortium and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced the addition of Airspan Networks Inc. to its Board of Governors. Airspan Networks will join […]
Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), a 3.5 GHz mid-band shared spectrum, offers a low-cost, high-speed broadband option for rural and underserved communities, and for cost-effective private network deployments. As the demand for this type of wireless infrastructure increases, so does the demand for a trained and certified workforce. And importantly, […]
In the years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the 911 system has undergone a major overhaul. The aging telephone system was replaced. Separate centers for medical, police and fire calls were consolidated under one roof. And new call-routing technology to prevent communications from going down during a disaster was […]
Verizon is now offering businesses on-premises, mobile edge computing (MEC) for real-time enterprise applications through a relationship with Microsoft. The solution combines Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge, which brings compute and storage services to the edge of the network. The resulting efficiencies, high levels of security, low […]
AT&T asked the FCC to apply a screen on mid-band spectrum holdings. If adopted, the concept could have significant consequences for chief rivals T-Mobile and Verizon, notes CNBC. That’s because those carriers have amassed significant mid-band spectrum holdings considered to be the “sweet spot” for 5G networks, according to industry […]
Carriers have been working since before Hurricane Ida hit the Gulf Coast to ensure network resiliency, pre-staging assets like generators and fuel, for example. Here’s an update on where things stood as of yesterday in Louisiana, the state hardest hit by the Category 4 hurricane, plus Mississippi and Alabama. AT&T […]