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Carriers
Parent company SoftBank will invest more money in Sprint
Sprint’s parent company, SoftBank, announced last week that it will increase in the medium term its annual capital expenditure in the telecommunications company from this...
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TMO L600 build out to begin later this year
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission officially granted licenses for the 600 MHz spectrum that T-Mobile secured in the recent spectrum auction. The carrier announced...
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Survey shows wireless data usage continues rapid climb
Wireless data usage in the United States continues to grow at a rapid pace according to the results of an annual survey recently released, conducted...
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Carriers
Ericsson and Verizon demonstrate 5G tech at Indy 500
Ericsson and Verizon demonstrated the impressive capabilities of emerging 5G technologies ahead of today’s Indy 500 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The demonstration showed...
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Nearly 40,000 AT&T workers go on temporary strike over weekend
AT&T workers who are members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), approximately 37,000, went on strike Friday evening, May 19th, with plans to return...
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Talk of Sprint, T-Mobile merger resurfaces
Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) has begun informal merger talks with T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS), after a temporary Federal Communications Commission ban on merger negotiations during...
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Carriers
Verizon out-bids AT&T for Straight Path, acquiring “5G” spectrum, for $3.1B
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Straight Path Communications Inc. (NYSE: STRP) and with it, the valuable mmWave...
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Carriers
Sprint announces plans for commercial 5G deployment by 2019
Sprint (NYSE: S) announced today a joint agreement between the carrier and Qualcomm (NYSE: QCOM) along with Japan’s SoftBank, the majority shareholder of Sprint. The...
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Government
FirstNet Update: First month of partnership yields significant progress
FirstNet & AT&T, the public-private partnership to establish America’s first nationwide public safety broadband network, has been rapidly developing implementation plans since the $46.5 billion...
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For first time in history, more American homes have cell phones only instead of landlines
You can file this one under job security for those in the wireless industry. For the first time, according to a survey from the Centers...