SoftBank Boosts RAN Efficiency with AI
“Significant momentum is now building behind AI-RAN as a way to transform the telecom industry and help it to address long-standing issues of connectivity and revenue generation.” —- Softbank Corp.
Smart Cities: Taking A Human-centered Approach to Technology
John Holden has made a seamless transition from economic development to smart city technology deployment by using technology to improve lives in Raleigh
Verizon, AT&T Complete First LEO Direct2Cell Video Calls
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) both trialed live video calls earlier this week using direct2cell service via AST SpaceMobile (NasdaqGS: ASTS) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. The trial […]
Contractors Cautiously Optimistic Going into 2025
The speakers encouraged the audience to continue to diversify into areas that are seeing growth outside of towers.
NATE Panel Forecasts Rebound in New Builds, Colos
AT&T is building more new sites this year than it has in four years; Verizon is building more new sites than in seven previous years; and T-Mobile is building more sites than it has in the last four years. —Danny Agresta, APC Towers
NATE Speakers Present a Strong Case for Diversification
One of the reasons for diversification is the pay is decreasing for tower services while labor costs are increasing. Another reason to diversify is to even out the capex cycles, which create a boom-and-bust roller coast for tower contractors.
Relativity Networks Raises Funds to Scale Next-Generation Fiber Optics
The hollow-core fiber product enables data to travel 1.5 times farther without impacting the latency that can throw intricate multi-location data operations and applications out of sync. As a result, data centers can be deployed farther apart, according to Relativity Networks.
Transition to 6G Takes Wireless into Unknown Territory
“We’re anticipating a smaller 6G surge in investment. As opposed to a nationwide buildout, 6G will be implemented in hotspot deployments to take care of capacity problems.” —-Joe Madden, Mobile Experts
T‑Mobile Beta Tests Direct-to-Cell Satellite Service; AT&T, Verizon Wait in the Wings
When a user’s cell phone gets out of range of a cell tower, the phone automatically connects to the T-Mobile Starlink network. Messages are sent and received just as they are on a traditional network, even group texts and reactions.
No Fiber for Falmouth for Now
“Verizon indicated it will build ubiquitously regardless of the presence of any other additional fiber providers. Put simply, this development would severely degrade the business viability of any other FTTP proposal in Falmouth, regardless of partnership model.” –Columbia Telecommunications Corporation