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Inside Towers – WIA President and CEO Patrick Halley gave the official welcome to the assembled hall of a thousand-plus attendees at Connect (X) 2023 in New Orleans this week, hitting on the show’s theme of Connectivity Everywhere. “It’s a bold vision,” Halley said, “a vision that is achievable with everybody in this room working together. It’s a vision that requires massive investment from industry and government. It’s a vision that requires the ingenuity and innovation from the best and brightest minds in the industry. It’s a vision that requires smart policy that provides a regulatory environment for the builders, operators and innovators in this room to succeed.” Read More
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Verizon – A build-to-suit agreement between Verizon and Vertical Bridge to build cell towers across the U.S. to expand Verizon’s 4G and 5G Ultra Wideband services includes a provision under which Verizon will share profits on the towers held in an LLC formed by Vertical Bridge. Read More
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Light Reading – Charter Communications has made no secret of its interest in building a 5G network using its CBRS spectrum holdings. But that’s just a small part of the company’s wider wireless ambitions, according to Gary Koerper, SVP of emerging technology for the cable operator. Read More
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Fierce Wireless – Speaking at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s Connect (X) conference in New Orleans this week, Mike Irizarry called the company’s FWA offering “wildly successful” and said that they do not have any capacity issues. Read More
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Broadband Breakfast – The primary problem with municipalities in permitting, planning, and deploying broadband connectivity projects is the bureaucracy, said Alphonso Jenkins, former broadband director of the City of New York. Read More
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Fierce Wireless – Dish Network plans to expand 5G Voice over New Radio (VoNR), the voice service that runs on its 5G standalone (SA) network, once it meets the FCC’s buildout requirement of providing coverage to 70 percent of the U.S. population by June 14. Read More
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Aviation Week – A tentative agreement calls for AT&T to invest $10 million to upgrade DFW’s WiFi network and install “a private 5G network for the airport’s internal use” as DFW moves toward the “digitization of airport operations.” Read More
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Inside Towers – By the end of June, BAI will rebrand globally as Boldyn Networks, and it has named Christos Karmis as CEO effective July 1. Karmis currently serves as President & CEO of Mobilitie, one of BAI’s group companies. Read More
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Radio World – Vertical Bridge named Ronald G. Bizick II, who has been the company’s president and chief operating officer since March of last year, as its new CEO. Current CEO and Co-Founder Alex Gellman will become executive chairman. Read More
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