The FCC on Thursday approved several proposals to support rural health care providers with broadband costs and other communications services. The Commissioners okayed a number of proposals for the Rural Health Care (RHC) Program to make it easier for providers to receive support, reduce delays in funding commitments, and improve […]
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Quebecor acquired additional 5G spectrum in Manitoba and Quebec Canadian operator Quebecor and its subsidiary Videotron have invested nearly CAD10 million ($7.5 million) to acquire new 5G wireless spectrum licenses, in Manitoba in the 600 MHz band and in Quebec in the 3,500 MHz band, Quebecor said in a release. […]
Nokia (NYSE: NOK), headquartered in Espoo, Finland, bolstered its position as a leading global communications equipment supplier with double digit top line growth in 2022. Consolidated sales grew 12 percent year-over-year to $27 billion, and operating profit grew 9 percent to $2.5 billion. During 2022, Nokia invested $4.9 billion or […]
Corning exec: ‘The fundamentals we are putting down now will carry forward to 6G’ The evolution of 5G into a more mature, software-defined and cloud-native network technology brings with it material changes in the types of skills operators need. As a result, telecom companies are investing more heavily in re-skilling […]
Not to be outdone by its wireless and cable company rivals, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) reported strong 4Q22 results and offered a positive outlook for its 2023 operations. Despite some quarterly gyrations during 2022, one of the more closely watched performance metrics is subscriber net additions. In Verizon’s case, this metric […]
AT&T CEO: ‘2022 was the most profitable year ever for our mobility business’ AT&T ended 2022 in a good position. The carrier reported that wireless service revenues went up 5.2% in the last quarter, while consumer broadband revenues increased by 7.2%. The carrier also added 656,000 postpaid phone subscribers during […]
For the second time in as many years, T-Mobile has been hacked. The carrier suffered a database breach that began last November affecting the personal information of 37 million subscribers, according to a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission last week. The hacker obtained access to limited types of information, […]
With colocation, Crown Castle sees double the per site activity at 10% the incremental cost Based on commentary from Crown Castle EVP and CFO Dan Schlanger at the Citi 2023 Communications, Media and Entertainment Conference, 2023 will be a big year from small cell densification in the U.S. market. Schlanger […]
The FCC agreed this week to revamp the 4.9 GHz band to create a new leasing model for unused parts of the spectrum. But it will keep the band’s primary purpose for public safety use. In a Seventh Report and Order and Ninth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Commission […]
T-Mobile US has suffered another data breach, with the company disclosing that a single Application Programming Interface (API) was used to “obtain limited types of information” on some of its customers. T-Mo said it was in the process of informing those customers, and that the information involved was “basic customer […]