BROWSING: AT&T

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Verizon landed the most individual awards, but T-Mo's speeds can't be beat T-Mobile US garnered the overall best 5G experience in the second half of 2022, per Rootmetrics, but AT&T also had a strong performance at the state level and Verizon did particularly well at...

The bulk of the three national carriers' capacity for Super Bowl 57 is on their 5G networks The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs aren't the only ones who have been preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl LVII—operators have been building out additional capacity...

Cybersecurity continues its evolution and organizations are focused on it more holistically, as part of business outcomes rather than as component parts, according to Theresa Lanowitz of AT&T. Lanowitz, who is the head of evangelism for AT&T Business' cybersecurity segment, draws on insights gathered...

The move to 5G has led to an explosion of endpoints, providing bad actors with a larger area of attack. AT&T's Rebecca Finnin discusses how using the intelligent networks of the 5G era themselves as security tools can help enterprises and consumers feel less...

T-Mobile US had an average 5G download speed of 186.3 Mbps from September 16 to December 14, 2022 For the seventh consecutive time, Opensignal has declared that T-Mobile US has the fastest 5G download speeds in the United States, hitting an average of 186.3 Mbps,...

Greetings from Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Florida (Ft. Lauderdale, the location of this year’s MetroConnect conference, is pictured).  It’s been a full week of Telco Top Five earnings, and we will devote most of this Brief to results analysis.  For those of you...

AT&T CEO: '2022 was the most profitable year ever for our mobility business' AT&T ended 2022 in a good position. The carrier reported that wireless service revenues went up 5.2% in the last quarter, while consumer broadband revenues increased by 7.2%.  The carrier also added...

The demo integrated radios with Northrop Grumman’s tactical data links, AT&T’s private 5G network and Fujitsu’s O-RAN Network AT&T, Fujitsu and Northrop Grumman Corporation said they recently demonstrated 5G-enabled intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in Northrop Grumman’s new 5G lab. The partners noted that the...

T-Mobile US achieved a median 5G download speed of 216.56 Mbps in Q4 2022 Once again, Ookla has crowned T-Mobile US as the fastest, most consistent and most available mobile operator in the United States. According to the company’s latest speed test, T-Mobile US achieved...

The 5G spectrum auction is expected to happen this year Mexico’s telecom regulator IFT approved the launch of a public consultation to put together an auction of 330 megahertz of additional low and mid-band spectrum. In total, the regulator aims to award 330MHz, of which 90...

Continuing its back to the basics approach, AT&T highlighted long-term growth opportunities from fiber and wireless Following its divestiture of the Warner Media assets and under the leadership of CEO John Stankey, AT&T appears to be a much more focused organization. And that focus, according...

Verizon originally planned its 3G shutdown for 2019 Verizon officially turned down its 3G network on the final day of 2022. It had been the last holdout among national mobile network operators, with AT&T and T-Mobile US already having completed their 3G shutdowns. Verizon first...