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Your Wireless Connection
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Light Reading – According to several financial analysts, the US wireless industry isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. That’s good news for AT&T and Verizon – and especially good news for T-Mobile. Read More
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Fierce Wireless – Crown Castle doesn’t need to predict what will be the “killer” 5G application, instead it just needs to able to handle network traffic wherever it’s needed, whether it’s at the tower, the small cell, over fiber or even at the network edge. Read More
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Developing Telecoms – Pan-African operator Airtel Africa and ATC Africa, American Tower Corporation’s African operation, have announced a multi-year, multi-product agreement across its footprint in Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda. Read More
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Light Reading – The airline industry has begun petitioning the FCC to make permanent changes to the operation of some 5G networks around airports. At the heart of the issue are 5G transmissions in C-band spectrum near airports. Read More
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Inside Towers – American Tower is considering a bid for a stake in Vodafone’s Vantage Towers wireless infrastructure unit. Vodafone plans to sell part of its roughly 82 percent interest in Vantage Towers. Read More
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Inside Towers – Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in Balmoral, Scotland triggered an intricate telecommunications plan, incorporating 5G and satellite broadband technology, to broadcast her final rest. The plan included creating a wireless solution for broadcasting the transportation of her majesty’s coffin from Edinburgh Airport to London. Read More
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Stacey on IoT – Last week, I made a trip out to Moline, Ill., to tour the more-than 3 million-square-foot factory where John Deere makes its X9 1100 combine, among other equipment, and which it built after spending half a million dollars in 2020 on 50 megahertz of wireless spectrum in five counties in the Midwest. Read More
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Inside Towers – Everest Infrastructure Partners announced it has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of nearly 100 tower assets from PeakNet representing locations in Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Read More
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Wi-Fi Alliance – Service providers are turning to fixed mobile convergence (FMC) to streamline their operations and ensure multi-access connectivity over wired or wireless networks while offering converged data services to their customers. Read More
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