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GSMA also estimates that 5G networks will cover 86% of Mexico’s population by 2030 5G subscribers in Mexico are expected to reach 87 million by 2030, up compared to 16.9 million in 2025, according to a report by telecom association GSMA. The GSMA report showed that...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Crown Castle to...

Lead from at least 2,000 old cables has degraded over time, contaminating the water and soil in several U.S. communities, reported The Wall Street Journal In a shocking report, The Wall Street Journal found that thousands of toxic lead-covered cables have been left behind by...

Verizon also took home Opensignal's first award for live video speeds via 5G T-Mobile US continues to dominate 5G download speed and availability in Opensignal's rankings, but Verizon narrowly beat out T-Mo on 5G upload speeds and maintained its lead in performance in terms of...

Space-based cellular connectivity company AST SpaceMobile said that it has repeatedly achieved download speeds of more than 10 Mbps over LTE as it tests its LEO BlueWalker 3 satellite with unmodified, commercial smartphones on the ground. AST SpaceMobile used leased AT&T spectrum and Nokia...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! A&T Mobility prepares...

Greetings from Nebraska and Missouri.  Pictured are the balloons from the Friday night glow at the Sedalia Hot Air Balloon and Kite Festival this past weekend.  It was spectacular, and Fastwyre was proud to be a sponsor.  Fortunately, the rains held off for most...

Telcel already owns 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band Mexican mobile operator Telcel, owned by telecommunications group America Movil, is considering whether to participate in the upcoming auction process through which the Mexican government expects to award 5G frequencies, local newspaper El...

John Stankey, CEO of AT&T, recently claimed during a recent J.P. Morgan analyst conference that enterprises and companies increasingly want private wireless. What, exactly, does that mean for AT&T? Enterprise customers like companies, universities, smart city’s and more want this for the benefits it...

Greetings from Louisiana, Texas, Nebraska and Missouri.  Pictured is Fastwyre’s oversized check presentation for the First Annual Sedalia Hot Air Balloon and Kite Festival.  We are excited to be a part of what will hopefully be a terrific tradition for the Sedalia area.  More...

Ever since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, AT&T has been one of America’s crowning achievements. Over time it grew into one of the best-known and strongest brands. Then about twenty-five years ago things started to unravel for Ma Bell. They were dying on...

John Stankey says AT&T will finish $6 billion cost-cutting plan this year, then move into cutting legacy infrastructure costs Now that it’s well-past the divestiture of Warner Media and executing on a back-the-basics approach to wired and wireless networks, AT&T CEO John Stankey touted a...

Soracom has introduced a new multi-carrier IoT service to cover the US market, piggybacking on the cellular networks of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The new data plan, called US-MAX, offers the “largest IoT coverage” in the US, plus automated-roaming between the three networks for...

Greetings from Georgia, Nebraska, Missouri and Louisiana.  We look forward to cutting the ribbon and launching service in Warrensburg and Knob Noster (home of Whiteman AFB) this week.  If you are in the area, please join us in celebrating competition and choice at 4...

AT&T has agreed to lease spectrum in the 700 MHz and 850 MHz bands to AST SpaceMobile In an official filing, AT&T asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve waivers allowing satellite-direct-to-phone company AST SpaceMobile to operate on leased spectrum from the carrier....

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Wireless learns to...

Thanks to being in Dallas last week for the Juniper Networks Enterprise Analyst & Influencer Summit, I can attest the Wi-Fi and wireless services made available to travelers at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport is at best, hit and miss. Some users got connected,...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! New bill offers...

AT&T reported a first quarter in which it saw its mobile subscriber growth slide compared to last year's performance and its free cash flow figure fell short of analysts' expectations, leading to a 10% drop in the company's stock in midday trading. AT&T reported 424,000...

AT&T Mexico said its 5G Innovation Laboratory is a space designed to test and validate 5G use cases AT&T Mexico has begun technological tests of private networks in its 5G Innovation Laboratory with partners including Qualcomm, Celona, Axity and Veea. The Mexican carrier said that...

AT&T says it plans to deploy 5G SA "when the ecosystem is ready" AT&T has laid claim to being the first to achieve a data call with two-carrier aggregation in the uplink in 5G Standalone. In a blog post, Jason Sikes, AT&T's AVP of device architecture,...

Tax weekend greetings from Missouri, Nebraska, Louisiana, Texas and Jamacia.  No, Fastwyre is not going global, but the staff of the Brief took part in a long-needed vacation to one of the largest and friendliest islands in the Caribbean.  Pictured is the sunset from Rick’s...

Prior to the new cell tower, the Cherokee community had to drive more than 10 miles to get mobile cell service Recently, AT&T tapped into federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to install a new cell tower in Kenwood, Oklahoma, improving connectivity access for...

The benefits of cloud-native RAN include efficient scaling, dynamic orchestration of microservices and enhanced security Operators are steadily working to become cloud-native from the core to the radio access network (RAN) all the way out to edge computing nodes. The rationale is two-fold: a cloud-native...