by Dugie Standeford
Flight delays and cancellations are possible from 1 July if planes fail to retrofit their altimeters to operate in the 5G C-band, according to US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Read more...
by Richard Haas
Speaking at an event organised by UK regulator Ofcom, representatives from BT in the UK and Verizon in the US agreed that the higher spectrum bands are important but device support and assignments are still lacking. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Auction 107, for the 3.7—3.98 GHz band, raked in around $81 billion. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile snapped up a large percentage of the 5,684 licences. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
Verizon followed through on its promise and launched a 5G home broadband service earlier this year. Although it can claim to be the first one to turn on a 5G commercial network, the mobile operator isn't using 3GPP official standards and its coverage is rather limited. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
As the US regulator unveils the results of the 600 MHz auction, it remains to be seen what one of the big winners, Dish, will do with its large spectrum holding, and how well TV channels will fare in the repacking process. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
Before Qualcomm’s global president urged industry and policymakers to avoid spectrum fragmentation this week, PolicyTracker spoke to the vendor’s European president Enrico Salvatori about accelerated timescales for 3GPP releases, Europe’s 5G focus and SDL’s role in the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). Read more...
by Kane Mumford
The operator told PolicyTracker that Verizon’s fixed wireless last-mile efforts were a “special case” and “not easy to find” in the existing 5G documentation. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Verizon, Qualcomm and Ericsson are seeking approval from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to field-trial spectrum sharing technology in the 3550-3650 MHz band. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Verizon Wireless, the largest 3G and 4G LTE network operator in the US, is to spend $3.6 billion on the 122 Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum licences owned by SpectrumCo, a joint venture between Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. The sale, which must be approved by… Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Verizon Wireless, the largest 3G and 4G LTE network operator in the US, is to spend $3.6 billion on the 122 Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum licences owned by SpectrumCo, a joint venture between Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. The sale, which must be approved by… Read more...