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News & Views Most Popular 5G Isn't Going Indoors Anytime Soon By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/21/2019 Around 80% of all mobile data traffic is consumed indoors and the fastest variety of 5G spectrum, millimeter-wave, won't get into your home or office in the near future. Post a Comment Russia Reserves 3.5GHz Band for the Military, Not 5G By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/20/2019 But Russia plots 5G millimeter wave in Moscow's Red Square with trials in the fall and a launch in 2020. Post a Comment Crown Castle Hires Google Lobbyist to Boost DC Efforts By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/19/2019 Tower and small cell company Crown Castle moved to bolster its Beltway firepower with the addition of a new chief lobbyist who hails from Google and Microsoft. Post a Comment Advertisement Did Altice Change Its Tune on Buying Spectrum? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Altice said it wants to buy C-Band spectrum, which appears to represent a bit of a change from the company's previous strategy. Post a Comment Verizon to Test Aggregation Across CBRS, 1900MHz, 700MHz & AWS Spectrum By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/14/2019 Verizon is planning to conduct tests that would combine transmissions across CBRS spectrum and its existing licensed spectrum bands, including 1900MHz, AWS and 700MHz. Post a Comment U.S. Cellular's CTO Opens Up About 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/9/2019 U.S. Cellular CTO Michael Irizarry offered a few more details about the operator's 5G plans ahead of the provider's 2020 launch. Post a Comment Things Are Getting Desperate in the 5G Small Cell Sector By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/7/2019 Pushed by federal and state legislation designed to speed up the small cell approval process, some cities are gearing up for an application explosion. And vendors are pushing things along with lawsuits. Post a Comment Advertisement We're Still Not Sure How Verizon Is Going to Provide Nationwide 5G By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/6/2019 Verizon has led the way with early high-band, millimeter-wave 5G, but the carrier faces lots of questions about how it can deploy 5G on low- or mid-band frequencies nationwide next year. Post a Comment Power Brokers: Utilities Explore Their Role in 4G & 5G By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/2/2019 Utility companies like Duke and Xcel are already major players in the telecom market. Now they're looking at how they might participate in 4G and 5G. Post a Comment Altice USA Signs AT&T to Nationwide Roaming Deal By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/31/2019 Says complementary agreement will ensure aggregate 99% nationwide coverage as Altice USA nears debut of a full MVNO mobile service developed via its Sprint partnership. Post a Comment CONFIRMED: Altice Mobile MVNO Priced at $25/Line for Employees By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 7/23/2019 Altice confirmed that its mobile offering is currently available to employees at $25 per line. That price is below what Comcast, Charter and Sprint charge for unlimited services. Post a Comment Eurobites: UK Government Gets Jumpy Over Inmarsat Sale By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 7/23/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Intracom Telecom lands Italian FWA job with Open Fiber; Openreach reduces wholesale FTTP prices; Ericsson and Swisscom join the 5G Dots. Post a Comment For Cell Phone Tower Owners, the Wall Street Party May Be Ending By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 7/12/2019 Cell tower owners including SBA, American Tower and Crown Castle have been enjoying lots of love on Wall Street. But the good times might be over, according to some analysts. Post a Comment Verizon Folding Smart City Unit Into Business Group, Ingram to Depart By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 7/10/2019 Verizon is moving its smart city operations into its new consumer/business corporate structure. As a result, Verizon's VP of Smart Communities, Mrinalini (Lani) Ingram, is leaving the company. Post a Comment Verizon Has a Tough 5G Transition Ahead – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/27/2019 AT&T and T-Mobile have a better 5G transition story amid Verizon's commitment to coverage-limited millimeter wave spectrum, industry analyst Craig Moffett says. Post a Comment 5G's Future Could Literally Be Full of Hot Air... And Drones By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/17/2019 Sure you could deliver 5G using regular stuff like macro cell towers and small cells. But if you're really cool, you'd use balloons, blimps or drones. Post a Comment Comcast & Charter Have Bad Apple Deals – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/14/2019 Apple has leverage in its mobile-facing deals with Comcast and Charter, requiring both to sell large numbers of other Apple devices, including iPads and Apple TVs, CNBC reported. Post a Comment Vodafone UK Gears Up for 5G, SD-WAN Push By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/6/2019 A visit to Vodafone UK's headquarters in Newbury reveals what's on the operator's mind – and it's not keen on the prospect of 6G... Post a Comment Another FCC Proceeding Pits 5G Industry Against Local Officials By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/5/2019 The FCC is considering a new set of rules that would add some wireless network equipment to its existing OTARD regulations. However, some city officials are accusing the agency of overstepping its authority and trampling on local oversight. Post a Comment Altice USA's Mobile Service to Fetch $20-$30 Per Month – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/28/2019 Pricing on cable op's Sprint-assisted mobile service reportedly will undercut offerings from major mobile service providers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 5G Isn't Going Indoors Anytime Soon By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/21/2019 Around 80% of all mobile data traffic is consumed indoors and the fastest variety of 5G spectrum, millimeter-wave, won't get into your home or office in the near future. Post a Comment Russia Reserves 3.5GHz Band for the Military, Not 5G By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/20/2019 But Russia plots 5G millimeter wave in Moscow's Red Square with trials in the fall and a launch in 2020. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Mobilitie Gets $1B for 5G From Unnamed 'Foreign Investment Fund' Friday, August 16, 2019 Ericsson Reports Q2 Sales Growth Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Small Cell Forum Opens Interface Between Physical Layer, MAC Layer on Path to Virtualized RAN Thursday, July 11, 2019 Casa Systems Completes NetComm Acquisition Monday, July 1, 2019 GCI Picks Ericsson for 5G Rollout Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Digital Colony Creates $4.05B Investment Fund Targeted at Towers, Small Cells, Fiber & Data Centers Wednesday, June 5, 2019 CommScope Q1 Sales Drop 1.9%, Arris Sales Dip 12.4% Thursday, May 9, 2019 Nokia Reports Q1 Loss Thursday, April 25, 2019 BT Calls For Open Access to UK 'Street Furniture' Friday, March 22, 2019 Tech Trio Teams on CBRS-Based Private LTE Network Setup Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Casa Systems Unveils CBRS Line-Up Monday, February 25, 2019 Former Qualcomm Exec Mike Finley Named CEO of Boingo Friday, February 22, 2019 Federated Wireless Expands CBRS Plans, Talks Up Packet Partnership Thursday, February 21, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Nuclear Plant Security Compromised by Financially Motivated Insiders Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Equipment at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was used to mine cryptocurrency. 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Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading Leading Lights 2017: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 4/10/2017 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (1 Comment) ETSI Gets Edgy About Mobile Iain Morris , International Editor , 9/19/2016 Interest is growing in the potential of mobile edge computing. But will it live ... (2 comments) Ericsson Still Seeking M&A Targets Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 12/1/2015 The Swedish giant's head of strategy, Rima Qureshi, is always looking for new M&A ... (2 comments) 5G: Meet the Influencers , 4/23/2015 A primer on the numerous organizations – some standards-oriented, some regional ... (0) All Prime Reading

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8/20/2019

Three CEO: We'd Rather Take Huawei Risk Than Miss 5G Rewards

Three UK has just launched a major 5G-led assault on the living room. If all goes to plan, the smallest of the country's four mobile network operators will emerge ...