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Your Wireless Connection
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Fierce Network – By Evan Swarztrauber, principal, Corepoint Strategies – When America’s wireless workers and infrastructure firms signed up to build EchoStar’s 5G network, they weren’t taking a bet on Charlie Ergen. They were answering a call from Washington. DISH’s open radio access network (ORAN) was meant to help counter Huawei’s dominance and rebuild American telecom equipment manufacturing. Over the past few years, however, DISH apparently decided that speculating on spectrum was more profitable and desirable than fulfilling these national imperatives — and the company’s binding buildout commitments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Read More
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Vertical Bridge Sponsored Content – Vertical Bridge, the largest private owner and operator of communications infrastructure in the United States, and leading global investment firm KKR announced that KKR will make a $1.5 billion equity investment in the company to support its future growth. Read More
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Array Sponsored Content – Array Digital Infrastructure will be meeting with wireless carriers, public agencies and a variety of service providers at Connect (X), where company representatives will share more on how Array is helping provide better connections in communities across the country. Read More
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WIA – Before there were tower crews, safety protocols and engineered deployments, there was a teenager with a CB radio hobby and a knack for figuring things out, his name – John Paleski. As Subcarrier Communications turns 40 years young this year and the United States turns 250, the founder and President of Subcarrier’s story is one rooted in the American dream. Read More
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RCR Wireless News – American Tower Corporation has raised its full-year outlook, pointing to sustained growth in mobile data, cloud adoption, and AI-driven workloads as key drivers of long-term demand for digital infrastructure. The company sees continued expansion in mobile data usage as a central factor underpinning network investment. Read More
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WIA – By Iain Gillott, VP, Innovation and Technology – Edge computing has been “just around the corner” for years. The concept: move compute closer to the user, reduce latency and unlock new applications. Fast forward to today, and edge is back. Not rebranded, not reinvented, just finally justified by AI inferencing, AI-RAN, and the ever-growing data demand requiring advances in faster speeds and lower latency connectivity. Read More
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RCR Wireless News – For Qualcomm, the case for 6G is about building a network platform that can sense the environment, support distributed AI inference and model the real world in software. Together, those capabilities begin to define how 6G could support physical AI, a broad vision that connects robots, sensors, networks and edge compute into a coordinated system. Read More
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WIA – By Deb Bennett, VP, Apprenticeship – National Apprenticeship Week is a powerful reminder that apprenticeship works – for workers looking to build real careers, and for employers who need skilled, job‑ready talent. At the Wireless Infrastructure Association, we see that impact every day through the Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program (TIRAP). Read More
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Inside Towers – Private tower companies are active with new tower builds and site modifications in response to mobile network operator demand for colocations and amendments associated with coverage and capacity expansion. But scaling a tower company involves permitting, financing, competition, and availability of quality assets to acquire. Read More
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