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The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) this week confirmed the release of the 1.0 launch-version of the new Matter connectivity specification for interoperability of IoT products, mainly in the smart home environment. This initial release will support various smart home products, including lighting and electrical,...

Samsung is delivering CBRS and 600 MHz equipment that will help Comcast expand its capacity and coverage in select areas Comcast announced that Samsung Electronics is providing it with 5G Radio Access Network equipment that will be used to boost 5G connectivity for Xfinity Mobile...

Two thirds (67 percent) of enterprises want to see a return on their IoT investments (ROI) within 12 months of starting-out, and yet almost half (49 percent) reckon the biggest roadblock to ROI is long deployment times. Clearly something is up, says a survey...

Initial roll-outs are already underway in Colorado, Georgia and Florida Comcast has announced that it is in the midst of a major network upgrade that includes plans to offer multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds and Wi-Fi 6 to customers starting next year. The network and in-home Wi-Fi...

If you are a Xfinity Mobile customer, you may have heard about their lower price offer. If you are considering this, there is something you need to be aware of. In recent years, Comcast has been showing growth with wireless offering. Now, they are...

Greetings from rural Midwest.  Pictured is the American Broadband fiber inventory for a new market we are in the process of launching.  More details on that launch in a few weeks as we bring fiber goodness to unserved and underserved homes and businesses.  This has...

Cable MSOs Charter Communications and Comcast both saw strong growth in their mobile businesses during the second quarter, with each cable company reporting net mobile customer additions greater than 300,000 and outperforming host network Verizon, which added 12,000 postpaid phone lines during the second...

More greetings from the 49th state, where Jim and the editor wrapped up their trip last week.  Pictured here is the main boat dock in Seward, Alaska (a TelAlaska/ American Broadband exchange).  Slightly off camera to the left of this picture is a large cruise ship...

May greetings from five states.  Lots of miles in the last month traveling through amazing parts of the Midwest and South.  The opening picture is of the Apple Man at the Fontanelle Orchard in Nebraska.  Celebrating their 16th year, they are located a mere 10 miles from...

Comcast-owned MachineQ has released a real-time location system (RTLS) for indoor asset tracking using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRaWAN. The hybrid IoT solution appears to utilise BLE for indoor RTLS, enabling assets to be pinpointed at three metres, and LoRaWAN to backhaul the...

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! Industry appeals FCC's...

Mother’s Day greetings from Georgia and many parts of Missouri.  Pictured is our dog, Abby, relaxing after a full-stride run on the farm in Willard, MO.  It’s been a packed weekend, and we hope that yours, too, was enjoyed with family and friends.    The last...

The LoRa Alliance has moved to head off fears about a collapse of LoRaWAN as a public network technology in Europe, following the decision by Bouygues Telecom in France to shut down its Objenious LoRaWAN network from 2024, by declaring a 66 percent jump...

Comcast activated the first 5G radios during the first quarter  Comcast expects to launch an employee field test of 5G in June, the company’s president and CEO Brian Roberts said during a conference call with investors. The executive also noted that Comcast had lit the first...

  Comcast Business recently announced a non-exclusive partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia to extend its enterprise connectivity portfolio to deliver 5G private wireless networks. For this purpose, Comcast will use Nokia DAC (Digital Automation Cloud) industrial-grade private wireless solution and digitalization enabler platform. The first Comcast Business...

Microsoft has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, the marketing and development body for the LoRaWAN  low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standard. Microsoft said LoRaWAN was a “critical connectivity fabric” for its work with digital twins, listing a bunch of customers that have used...

September greetings from the Midwest and Southeast.  Pictured is one of the many “Instawalls” in Kansas City that celebrate our local football team, the Chiefs.  We are excited about our return to the City of Fountains and are anxious about the bruising schedule the...

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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Comcast makes mobile...

Father’s Day greetings from Dallas, TX, and Davidson/ Lake Norman, NC.  The opening picture is from last Friday’s Lake Norman boat ride with our neighbors.  Having my Dad and Mom nearby is a blessing.  We hope each of you has a similarly joyous celebration...

Comcast's wireless business added 278,000 total lines during the first quarter of 2021, its best quarter to date, and it reached a break-even point for the first time since it launched in 2017, the cable network operator reported. Wireless revenues were at $513 million,...

Comcast serves more than 1.6 million residential, business customers throughout Washington Comcast is investing $4.2 million over the next two years to expand its Xfinity and business services to 815 homes in the city of Sumas, a rural community of Whatcom County in Washington state. Congresswoman...

Over the last year, it looks like everything has flip-flopped, at least temporarily. Thanks to COVID-19, carriers who were expanding beyond their traditional core, who looked like their growth was unlimited, today are being impacted by some of their new acquisitions and are struggling...

Big Game greetings from Lake Norman/ Charlotte/ Davidson, NC.  Pictured (r-l) are Darius Warton,  Bob Guth (audophile and telecom legend), Gary Eason and yours truly.  Gary and Darius have started a business selling vinyl records and turntables – check out their selection at www.thetwistedvinyl.com.  We build...

When cable TV companies didn’t have competition, they didn’t care about the customer. They only focused on the investor. This worked for them because there was only one cable TV provider for every region, so they had nothing to lose. Now that things are...