BROWSING: Verizon

With the Verizon Cloud Platform and virtualization learnings, the operator sees “a distinct competitive advantage”  Verizon has virtualized more than 10,000 cell sites so far, and is working toward a goal of bringing vRAN to more than 20,000 sites by the end of 2025. In...

Executives cut the ribbon this week on the newest Verizon Innovation Lab in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO—A transition from the “art of the possible to…the art of the practical.” That was the theme communicated by Verizon SVP and CTO Ed Chan at the opening of...

Verizon Connect EAT is now available for Verizon Connect Fleet and Reveal in both the U.S. and Canada Verizon Connect has new updates for mobile workforce management platforms to help customers connect and monitor their assets in a centralized way, the company said in a...

Verizon said 64% of people in the Jacksonville area are covered by its mmWave and C-Band network Jacksonville, Florida is the latest U.S. city to receive “major” network upgrades from Verizon. The carrier said that the upgrades, which are being systematically rolled out in cities...

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! Verizon wants to...

[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...

ABI Research also highlighted that North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific regions are driving 5G FWA deployments 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) subscriptions are forecast to reach 72 million by 2027, representing 35% of the total FWA market, according to a recent report by...

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....

Greetings from the Southeast and the Midwest as winter transitions into spring.  In this Brief, after a full market commentary, we will provide a retrospective on larger macro trends since the 2020 shutdown (pictured is Bossy Beulah’s, a favorite lunch spot during COVID that...

Verizon EVP and CFO Matt Ellis, who’s leaving the post on May 1, provided an update on the carrier’s strategic priorities this week at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference. Ellis will be replaced by Tony Skiadas as the board looks for...

Sixty percent of Super Bowl LVII attendees were Verizon customers, and together, they used 47.8 TB of data Ahead of Super Bowl LVII, Verizon invested more than $100 million in network upgrades and enhancements in and around State Farm Stadium and the greater Phoenix area....

While diversity and inclusion efforts are becoming a priority in telecom, glaring gender and racial gaps remain The evolution of 5G into a more open, software-defined and cloud-native network technology brings with it material changes in the types of skills connectivity vendors and providers need...

The U.S. Labor Department estimates that the global shortage of software engineers may reach 85.2 million by 2030 A shift towards network virtualization and software-defined networking is one of the telecom trends that Corning's Director of Wireless R&D and Chief Technologist Shirish Nagaraj believes is most...

IT services company Capgemini has opened a 5G solutions facility in San Francisco, in the US, to help enterprises boost their adoption of 5G and edge technologies. Located at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), the center claims to provide a co-creation environment for innovative...

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...

Verizon operates several 5G Labs in the U.S. that specialize in developing use cases for diverse industries KPMG has deployed a Verizon private 5G wireless network into its Ignition Center inside KPMG Lakehouse as part of the two companies' alliance to deliver 5G solutions designed...

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...

Verizon installed more than 450,000 feet of cabling for the Wi-Fi network Verizon is providing new Wi-Fi connectivity to fans and staff at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the 65th running of the DAYTONA 500. Because NASCAR’s U.S. speedways are some of the largest...

Verizon Super Bowl fans used 47.8 TB of data; AT&T fans used 21 TB Both AT&T and Verizon reported a record amount of data on their networks in and around State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Of the 67,827 in-person Super Bowl LVII fans,...

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...

In the US market at least, FWA seems to be leading new 5G service revenue generation When Verizon initially launched 5G in 2018, it was a pre-standard mmWave FWA. Since then, and in line with the articulated plan to provide nationwide broadband using wireless and...

For Verizon, mmWave 5G represents a promising growth vector Verizon is trialing a new 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) solution from 5G RAN solutions developer Verana Networks. According to Verana, its multi-hop IAB solution enables mmWave 5G small cells to supplies wireless...