BROWSING: Federated Wireless

Federated seeks to smooth the path to CBRS private networks Federated Wireless is taking aim at making it easy for enterprises to adopt private networks that leverage the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, by making its new CBRS-based end-to-end managed service available through both Amazon...

The UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, gaming, logistics, and tourism sectors. Projects include private networking with Vodafone, Industry 4.0 with...

PAL auction scheduled to begin in June The Federal Communications Commission officially gave the nod yesterday for full commercial deployment in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service shared spectrum, certifying CommScope, Federated Wireless, Google and Sony as Spectrum Access System administrators for a five-year period. The FCC...

It’s no secret that Mobile Operators are facing increased pressure as competition grows at the same time that data demands are going through the roof and margins are compressing. Residential and business customers have options, and operators are always exploring cost effective ways to...

Final federal approval for Initial Commercial Deployment (ICD) of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service is expected to come any day, and Federated Wireless says it has more than 20 customers ready to go. The CBRS Alliance has scheduled an event for September 18 to celebrate...

Greetings from Charlotte, North Carolina (picture is, from left, Frank Cairon, formerly of Verizon Wireless and Ryan Barker, currently with Verizon Wireless enjoying some good Mexican food on Friday in the Queen City with yours truly).   This week’s TSB examines the short-term dynamics that...

Federated Wireless gains backing from SBA Communications for CBRS-based private LTE Federated Wireless has raised $51 million in a Series C funding round, in the midst of the final run-up to the commercial launch of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service. The final regulatory go-ahead for Initial...

Amazon has applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a temporary license to work in the CBRS band in California to test and analyse the performance of new 3.5 GHz (3550 MHz to 3700 MHz) wireless devices. It is its second application, at...

ESC approvals a key step in commercializing CBRS Commercial access to the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band by operators and enterprises continues to take shape as the complex regulatory and approval process hit another milestone this week. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, after...

The idea that an enterprise can get easy access to use CBRS spectrum to deploy their own LTE wireless networks is an exciting one. CBRS is a business and technological puzzle, and many pieces still need to come together for this novel approach to...

The bureaucratic wheels continue to turn in the process to get initial commercial deployments of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service underway. It's ... so ... close. On Friday, a blog post confirmed that the final test reports for the first wave of Spectrum Access System...

In a promising sign for large enterprise adoption of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts was granted permission to conduct internal testing to see if some of its existing wireless infrastructure at its Disney resorts in Anaheim, California and Orlando,...

Testing is ongoing in the United Kingdom and Federated is speaking with regulators in about 20 countries, CEO says ORLANDO--Federated Wireless, a driving force behind the pending commercialization of shared access to 150 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band,...

Midwestern internet service provider Midco recently wrapped up successful Citizens Broadband Radio Service testing, confirming that the technology works with its existing LTE network and preparing to provide rural fixed wireless access via CBRS. Midco said that once the final Federal Communications Commissions approvals...

A number of new infrastructure products have been announced with support for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz, as the industry prepares for commercialization of the band and network launches expected early next year. Motorola Solutions launched a new offering for private...

Ruckus, Federated Wireless and Syniverse announced a collaboration that aims to provide enterprises with the ability to deploy secure private LTE networks in lieu of Wi-Fi, using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz. All three of the companies bring their own piece...

Edge computing sites will be pre-integrated to support CBRS There's broad consensus in the telecom industry that building out edge infrastructure will be key to delivering latency-sensitive 5G use cases, as well as enabling enterprise and industrial initiatives that fit under the umbrella of digital...

Zinwave CEO Scott Willis discusses the latest in CBRS As the telecom industry moves to commercialize use of the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service, the concept of sharing spectrum based on a priority access scheme could be adapted to put other valuable spectrum resources...

AT&T names CBRS suppliers; Federated Wireless and partners planning initial commercial deployments Conversations and news out of Mobile World Congress Americas last week in Los Angeles served as a reminder that, despite an ongoing lag at the regulatory level, the telecom ecosystem is ready to...

CBRS Alliance pushing for Q4 commercial deployments While it continues to debate rules governing priority access licenses for the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July put out a call to authorized spectrum access system administrators to propose...

SAS and DAS come together as CBRS Alliance looks to Q4 OnGo deployments The industry is eager to put valuable spectrum in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band to work. The CBRS Alliance, an industry trade group working to advance adoption of shared...

From CBRS in the U.S. to shared spectrum for 5G globally More mobile data traffic means more capacity means more spectrum. Around the world, telecoms regulators are working to enable 5G deployments by opening up a wide mix of spectrum for use by service providers....

AUSTIN, Tex.--Verizon has begun testing LTE in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz in its commercial network, with a deployment in Florida that utilized both indoor and outdoor systems. No commercial user devices are yet available for CBRS (Verizon expects them to...

Carriers and other network operators should be able to offer some services using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum as soon as next year. Vendors have developed software to manage and assign CBRS spectrum dynamically, and are now preparing for a certification process with...