As Santa Claus makes final preparations in the North Pole for his worldwide sleigh ride, Verizon’s holiday tech team is poised to track his whereabouts on December 24. Partnering with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) for the 21st consecutive year, Verizon will provide support for a toll-free hotline […]
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says its ReConnect Program is the agency’s largest effort aimed at filling gaps in broadband coverage areas in unserved and underserved rural areas. The program was created on a pilot basis in 2018, and appropriated more than $5 billion between fiscal years 2018 […]
StratCap, LLC (“StratCap”) and its affiliate, StratCap Wireless, LLC (“StratCap Wireless”), announced today the closing of the sale of substantially all of the assets of Strategic Wireless Infrastructure Fund, LLC, (“SWIF I” or the “Fund”), a real estate program sponsored by StratCap, to a national, private equity-backed tower company. The […]
Ericsson’s $14 billion Open RAN deal with AT&T is set to create new opportunities for vendors, and possibly for some of the field workers who were recently let go by the radio equipment maker. As Inside Towers was the first to report, Ericsson laid off 750 employees at the end […]
DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) supports provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24 NDAA) that it says will promote wireless innovation. House and Senate negotiators released the compromise version of the NDAA last week. The House passed the annual Defense authorization bill Thursday, sending the $886 […]
The O-RAN Alliance is working on an uplink modification to open fronthaul for Massive MIMO radios to improve uplink performance. At a recent meeting in Osaka, the Alliance approved moving the equalizer from the distributed unit (DU) to inside each radio unit on the tower. Today, there is what is […]
UPDATE Wednesday’s FCC unanimous vote to speed resolutions to pole attachment disputes and bring more transparency to the process brought mixed reviews from industry. “For INCOMPAS members, gaining quick access to utility poles at reasonable terms remains a consistent barrier to their efforts to build next-generation broadband networks, which is […]
UPDATE The House of Representatives unanimously passed Sen. John Kennedy’s (R-LA) 5G Spectrum Authority Licensing Enforcement (SALE) Act. The bill now goes to the White House for President Biden’s signature. The measure would give the FCC authority for 90 days to issue T-Mobile and other winning bidders the licenses they […]
Everest Infrastructure Partners, based in Pittsburgh, PA, and TowerCo, headquartered in Cary, NC, have jointly acquired 546 wireless towers from Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR). While financial terms were not disclosed, the deal will be completed over multiple closings starting in December 2023. Charter’s tower assets included in this transaction are […]
Crown Castle Inc. (NYSE: CCI) late yesterday announced that Jay Brown informed the company’s Board of Directors on Wednesday of his decision to retire as Crown Castle’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the company, effective January 16, 2024. The Board has appointed Anthony Melone, a member of […]