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Kagan: AT&T pays high price for weakness in customer care

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...

AT&T CEO: Marrying private and public networks is ‘really important’ 

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 targets oil and gas, agriculture, supply chain with US-wide IoT data service

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...

The Sunday Brief: First quarter earnings in five words or less (Part 2)

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, AST SpaceMobile seek FCC approval for spectrum leasing deal

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....

#TBT: Dabbling in mobile data; Paging consolidation; A ‘new telecom era’ … this week in 1997

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...

Kagan: How AT&T will improve DFW Airport Wi-Fi and private wireless

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,...

#TBT: Loosening the long-distance leash; CDMA delayed; Paging services emerge in India … this week in 1995

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 touts ‘consistent … profitable’ growth in 5G, fiber

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, Qualcomm and partners test private 5G networks

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 aggregates low and midband spectrum in 5G SA uplink

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,...

The Sunday Brief: First quarter earnings questions (Part 2)

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...

Upholding history while moving forward—AT&T cell tower brings connectivity to Cherokee Nation

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...

Will Open RAN drive cloud-native or vice versa? 

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...

The Sunday Brief: First quarter earnings questions (Part 1)

[email protected] 26, 2023, 3:21 PM (16 hours ago)to jim Greetings from the Midwest as we slowly turn from winter into Spring.  Pictured is the Wayne County (Nebraska) courthouse from the week of March 13.  Still a good snowpack even as late as last week.  This week’s Brief is...

What $140bn of network gets you – AT&T proclaims five-year milestones

AT&T has marked five years of network building in the US with a press note about what $140 billion of infrastructure investment gets you – in terms of best-of awards for coverage, reliability, and support for emergency services, and how higher-performance fiber and cellular...

#TBT: Sprint shuts down WiMAX; 600 MHz auction begins; Dell sells IT service unit to NTT Data … this week in 2016

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! Sprint shuts down...

AT&T leans into AI, and leans on Nvidia to do it

The scale of data which AT&T processes is staggering: More than 590 petabytes on a daily basis, the equivalent of 6.5 million 4K movies. Being able to process its data faster and more efficiently means tangible improvements in reduced cost (especially cloud costs), increased...

Kagan: When will Verizon show strong growth and leadership again?

Verizon has been struggling to turn the ship around and get back on a solid growth track for the last decade. The good news is they are beginning to show some positive movement. The problem is there is still a long way to go....

#TBT: LTE device boom; Virtualization looms; T-Mo/Sprint merger rumors … this week in 2014

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! LTE device numbers...

AT&T on Open RAN: ‘It’s important. It will happen.’

BARCELONA—Igal Elbaz, AT&T's CTO for networks, has words for Open RAN doubters: Open RAN is going to happen, because it's that important to telecom innovation. It's just a matter of when, and he said there are two factors which will determine how quickly it...

Major telcos move to open network APIs to developers – to drive innovation, revenues

MWC 2023: The GSMA has announced a framework of universal network application programmable interfaces (APIs) to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. At launch, at the annual MWC showcase in Barcelona, the so-called GSMA Open Gateway initiative has the support of 21...

Kagan: How AT&T and Verizon are impacting their landline users

Let me help AT&T and Verizon solve a growing problem they are wrestling with. When you are in a competitive industry, you must first focus on the customer. Happy customers let you grow and succeed. Unhappy customers are always a struggle. The problem AT&T...

The Sunday Brief: T-Mobile’s “grown up” problem

Early Valentine’s Day greetings from Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Florida.  Hard to believe that two weeks ago we were basking in the glory of another Chiefs AFC Championship win.  Today’s game will be tough, but, like the 2022-2023 season, Coach Reid and the team...