U.K. Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan laid out plans and investment commitments to boost digital connectivity and put the U.K. at the forefront of future telecom technologies including the next evolution of 5G and 6G, EE News reported. The new Wireless Infrastructure Strategy (WIS) offers an investment package worth about $185 […]
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UPDATE T-Mobile would like Congress to reauthorize the FCC’s spectrum auction authority so it can use the 2.5 GHz spectrum it won at auction last summer. President of Technology Neville Ray says the telecom “has been stuck in regulatory limbo with the spectrum won in Auction 108. Spectrum can boost […]
Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the state is awarding nearly $92 million to expand high-speed internet access to an estimated 14,500 households and businesses. The funding comes from Connect Maryland, an initiative to close the digital divide through the Office of Statewide Broadband. The Connect Maryland Network Infrastructure Grant Program […]
In remarks at the company’s annual shareholder meeting yesterday, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges confirmed that the German telecom giant is now the majority shareholder of T-Mobile US (NASDAQ: TMUS). A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Schedule 13D/A filing dated March 31, 2023, shows that Deutsche Telekom and its subsidiaries […]
Engineer, inventor and futurist Martin (Marty) Cooper set the mobile communications industry on an upward trajectory 50 years ago yesterday, on April 3, 1973, when he made the first handheld mobile call from a New York City street to a friend at then-competitor AT&T using a prototype cell phone, Mobile […]
FiberLight, a regional fiber company headquartered in Alpharetta, GA, and MDC Data Centers, a McAllen, TX-based provider of carrier-neutral colocation services along the U.S. border, announced the launch of a new facility in Eagle Pass, TX. Connecting to MDC’s established international fiber crossing infrastructure, the new data center located at […]
South Wireless Summit 2023 Although the Tower Panel at the South Wireless Summit in Nashville held this week agreed on most topics, there were differing views concerning high-rent relocations. When carriers like AT&T complained that tower rents had gotten too high, modifications were made to many master lease agreements to […]
StratCap recently announced the hiring of Seale Duggar as Director of Contract Management. Duggar joins the company’s wireless infrastructure team, StratCap Wireless, in an effort to help execute its mission of acquiring, developing, and managing mission critical digital infrastructure assets that support broadband connectivity. Duggar has experience in the telecommunications […]
11th Annual South Wireless Summit The 11th Annual South Wireless Summit Kicks off today, with Vertical Bridge and Ontivity as its Title Sponsors and SMW and Next Edge as the 2023 Platinum Sponsors. The First Event starts at 12 noon with the GPD Top Golf Event; Pointivo and SPX will […]
The FCC’s broadband maps have come a long way and the agency is on-track to release the next version this spring. So says FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in an update. The Commission released pre-production versions of the maps in November, Inside Towers reported. At the time, Rosenworcel said work would […]