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#TBT: Verizon, Vodafone look ahead to LTE; RIP, Disney Mobile MVNO; the iPhone comes to Europe … this week in 2007
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!
Verizon, Vodafone look...
Ten notable midband tests and trials
As the telecom ecosystem gets deeper into CBRS deployments and eagerly awaits the availability of C-Band spectrum, carriers and vendors are partnering on numerous tests and trials of various aspects of the two bands. In the C-Band, most testing is focused on pre-deployment work...
‘Dropping latency at the edge:” Verizon launches private cloud solution for enterprises with Microsoft Azure
Earlier this year, Verizon launched On Site 5G, which allowed enterprise and public sector customers to utilize the carrier’s mmWave network
Almost a year after announcing an edge computing solution with Microsoft, Verizon has announced the availability of an on-premises, private edge compute solution called...
Verizon’s Chief Revenue Officer on how 5G will help the carrier become a ‘full’ connectivity provider
Verizon's 5G Home service is available in parts of 52 U.S. cities
Verizon has been expanding its 5G Home broadband offering across the U.S., with the service available in parts of 52 cities as of early August. According to Verizon Consumer Group’s Chief Revenue Officer...
Verizon and Samsung racing to build C Band vRAN 5G network (Analyst Angle)
While the media is abuzz with the news of Samsung Foldable smartphones, being a network engineer at heart, I am more excited about Verizon and Samsung’s recent announcement about the successful completion of 5G virtual RAN (vRAN) trials using the C Band spectrum. Verizon’s...
Verizon expands automated interconnect solution with Equinix
The Software-Defined Interconnect solution is part of the Verizon Business Network-as-a-Service strategy and was first launched in 2019
Recognizing “shifting market demands,” Verizon Business and Equinox are partnering to expand Verizon’s Software-Defined Interconnect (SDI) solution to enable global enterprise and public sector customers to connect...
Verizon and IBM partner on 5G, MEC Industry 4.0 testbed in Texas
Verizon is helping IBM expand the capabilities at its Industry Solution Lab in Coppell, Texas to include a testbed environment for developing and testing 5G-enabled use cases for Industry 4.0 applications.
Verizon and IBM first collaborated on 5G and edge computing, and at Mobile World Congress...
Verizon and IBM combine on 5G test cases, ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0
IBM and Verizon are collaborating on 5G use cases and ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0 at IBM’s ‘industry solution lab’ in Texas, in the US. The pair are offering industrial enterprises a test environment to experiment with 5G networking, cloud-and-edge compute, and analytics-based AI...
5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Real-time video analytics
Real-time video analytics solutions are already helping manufacturing companies to know when something is broken or needs to be replaced soon
Verizon and AWS add MEC to 5G for IoT developers in Chicago, Houston, Phoenix
Verizon has added compute and storage into its 5G network infrastructure in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. Its project to build-out its multi-access edge compute (MEC) infrastructure, in partnership with AWS, has now reached 13 cities in the US. The rest of the country’s “top-20”...
Verizon and AWS expand 5G MEC coverage to three more locations
Verizon 5G MEC is now available in Chicago, Houston and Phoenix
Verizon has added 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) in three additional locations: Chicago, Houston and Phoenix. Verizon 5G Edge, a real-time cloud computing platform, with AWS Wavelength brings AWS compute and storage services to...
Verizon 5G Business Internet now available in five additional cities
A total of 47 cities now has access to Verizon 5G Business Internet
Verizon Business has expanded coverage for its 5G Business Internet, a fixed-wireless Internet offering for businesses of all sizes, to parts of an additional five cities, bringing the total number of cities...
The rise of connected healthcare raises questions about equitable broadband access
If connected healthcare becomes a primary delivery method, what about the 3 billion unconnected people?
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Lack of access to reliable broadband internet service is a global problem. At the end of April, Data Reportal...
Test and Measurement: Verizon set to tune its C Band modeling
Verizon is gearing up for a nationwide effort to test C Band spectrum in order to tune its models for deployment. The carrier was granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission this week to use a 30 kilohertz slice of C Band spectrum at...
Verizon, Newlab reveal results of 2020 5G Studio testbed
The 5G Studio allows innovators to leverage Verizon’s 5G mmWave network and MEC to develop tech across various industries
Verizon first established a 5G Studio with Newlab in 2020 in New York City’s Brooklyn Navy Yard. The two companies then selected seven startups from a...
Verizon Public Sector secures $78.8 million task order with the Air National Guard
Verizon Public Sector has secured a $78.8 million Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task order with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide advanced network modernization services to the Air National Guard (ANG) Readiness Center. The task order, stated the operator, increases the scope of services...
Boom year for private 5G? Telcos restructure to take enterprise bull by network horns
A new report by analyst house ABI Research says the traditional telco community is restructuring its enterprise operations, including by establishing brand new business units, in order to deliver custom 5G networks for private industrial usage, and to make 2021 a “boon year” for...
Verizon and Samsung complete fully virtualized 5G data session on C Band spectrum
Verizon added an average of 161 MHz of C Band spectrum nationwide to its portfolio, more than doubling its existing mid-band spectrum
Using its recently acquired C Band spectrum, Verizon teamed up with Samsung Electronics on an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session in a...
Well, technically… Verizon has small business tools you probably don’t know about: Verizon’s Wendy Taccetta (Ep. 47)
According Verizon's Senior Vice President for Nationwide Small Business Wendy Taccetta, small businesses are usually the last to bounce back after a financial crisis like the one we saw during Covid-19. But, she says, this time it can be different thanks to the advances...
The Sunday Brief: AT&T and Verizon Q2 Results – Different, Yet Similar
July greetings from the Midwest and Davidson/ Charlotte/ Lake Norman, NC.
Pictured to the right is the World’s Largest Truckstop on I-80 between the Quad Cities and Des Moines (highly recommend the coffee). We’ve been traveling a lot by car over the last three weeks, and predict...
Ericsson strikes $8.3bn 5G agreement with Verizon
Ericsson announced a new multi-year agreement with U.S. carrier Verizon to provide its 5G solutions with the aim of accelerating the deployment of Verizon's 5G network in the country.
Under the $8.3 billion deal, Verizon will deploy Ericsson's 5G MIMO C-band, low-band and millimeter wave...
Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile, Vodafone lead AT&T, Verizon for enterprise 5G
Deutsche Telekom, China Unicom, Orange, China Mobile, and Vodafone have ranked top, apparently in order, in an assessment of 20 mobile network operators for enterprise 5G connectivity. These five are “clear leaders in this space”, said author ABI Research, and head the market from...
Verizon Business expands 5G internet offering to additional cities
The offering is now available in parts of 42 U.S. cities, up from 24 in April
Verizon Business has expanded its fixed-wireless internet offering, 5G Business Internet, to a total of 42 U.S. cities, a rapid expansion from the previous total of 24 announced in...
Rootmetrics: Verizon stays strong, but AT&T, T-Mo make gains
Verizon's network performance continues to be strong, but both AT&T and T-Mobile US are seeing a streak of performance improvements, according to the most recent round of testing from Rootmetrics.
In Rootmetrics' analysis, AT&T saw significant improvements at the national and state levels of...