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Rescue 42 unveils 50-pound deployable cell tower

Deployable solution provider Rescue 42 last week announced the miniNSD AiO (All-in-One) deployable cell site, which weighs only 50 pounds and is designed to provide Verizon cellular broadband coverage with satellite backhaul quickly while being powered by internal batteries or external sources. Rescue 42 President, CEO and CTO Tim O’Connell said technological advancements—particularly the Starlink […]

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Verizon, EchoStar, Ericsson and others push for more CBRS power

Some big 5G companies like Verizon, EchoStar and Ericsson want to increase the power of their transmissions in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band. They argue doing so will make the band more useful by extending the geographic range of CBRS signals. But higher power level limits could ruin the burgeoning cable and fixed wireless networks […]

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Lynk shakes up leadership again with new CEO, CFO

Satellite-direct-to-device provider Lynk Global today announced the appointments of Ramu Potorazu as CEO and Steven Fay as CFO to lead Lynk’s efforts to become a publicly listed company in the wake of a recent partnership with Slam, a special-purpose acquisition company led by former baseball star Alex Rodriguez. Potorazu has satellite-industry experience, having served as […]

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AT&T snaps up T-Mobile’s unwanted midband spectrum from UScellular

AT&T is taking its cut from the breakup of UScellular. The company on Thursday inked a deal to buy lowband 700MHz and midband 3.45GHz spectrum from UScellular in a deal worth $1.01 billion. That transaction follows Verizon’s announcement last month that it would buy $1 billion worth of UScellular’s spectrum in the 850MHz and AWS spectrum bands. And that […]

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Apple’s satellite ambitions get $1.1B bigger

Apple plans to invest another $1.1 billion into satellite operator Globalstar. But the details and contours of that investment remain unclear. “The Updated Services Agreements provide that Customer [Apple] will make cash prepayments to the Company, including for approved capital expenditures in connection with the Extended MSS Network,” Globalstar disclosed in a new SEC filing. The […]

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Google to retire CBRS network-planning tool

Roughly five years after introducing the service, Google said it will “deprecate” its 3.5GHz CBRS network planning tool by the end of this year. Google officials didn’t immediately respond to Light Reading’s questions about its decision. On its website, Google offers tips on how users can export their data from their Network Planner projects. “It’s really […]

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AT&T CEO shares potential 4.9 GHz vision as FirstNet tops 6.4 million connections

AT&T this week announced that FirstNet supports more than 6.4 million connections for more than 29,000 public-safety agencies, while CEO John Stankey applauded the recent FCC vote granting the FirstNet Authority control over usage of 4.9 GHz spectrum via a sharing agreement with a nationwide band manager. Stankey made the comments during AT&T quarterly conference […]

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T-Mobile interferes with NextWave’s network, FCC finds

T-Mobile’s 5G network is interfering with NextWave’s network in New York City, the FCC found in a pair of new reports. The FCC said its field agents conducted 2.5GHz signal strength measurements in a total of six locations across New York City in September. The agency reported that, in one set of tests, T-Mobile’s median signal strength […]

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FCC approves 4.9 GHz license to band manager, sharing deal with FirstNet Authority

FCC commissioners today announced approval of much-anticipated rules governing the 4.9 GHz band that grants a nationwide overlay license to a yet-to-be-selected band manager, which will be prohibited from operating on the band but will be “authorized to enter into a sharing agreement” with the FirstNet Authority. “We find that our topline goals of preserving […]

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T-Mobile relinquishes mmWave spectrum ‘not feasible’ to deploy

T-Mobile has received the FCC’s permission to give up some millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum that the operator said “is not feasible to effectively deploy … in a way that would benefit the public.” In a handful of locations around the country, T-Mobile told the FCC that it does not plan to expand its mmWave coverage […]

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