The Trump administration has told the German government it would limit intelligence sharing with Berlin if Huawei Technologies Co. is allowed to build Germany’s next-generation mobile-internet infrastructure. In a letter to the country’s economics minister, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard A. Grenell wrote allowing the participation of Huawei or other Chinese equipment vendors in the 5G project would mean the U.S. won’t be able to maintain the same level of cooperation with German security agencies.
Inside the 5G small cell opportunity: Big & messy
This article discussed the opposing viewpoints of Crown Castle and American Tower on small cell installation. "We are excited about the significant investments we are making to build new fiber assets as we pursue this expanding small cell opportunity," said Crown’s Jay Brown...
Telecom companies get OK to install 5G antennas
Last Tuesday, Miami-Dade County lawmakers gave the OK to Crown Castle, Verizon and AT&T to install small cell technology throughout the area. County commissioners voted unanimously May 7 to allow the three telecom companies to attach the small cells to county property on public ri...
Notable women in technology
Ana Rua, public affairs manager at Crown Castle, was listed on Crain’s New York Business’ Notable Women in Technology. "In her role as public affairs manager at Crown Castle, Ana Rua offers education for policymakers in 16 states as they develop telecommunications poli...
The 5G story: How to profit from the technological evolution
Although the 5G business is not expected to have much of an impact or become truly profitable until 2021, Crown Castle "is on the front lines of infrastructure development, and has promising growth prospects as the wireless carriers, like Verizon, look for fiber-fed small cell sit...
Vapor IO provides direct, high-speed connections from the edge to AWS
Vapor IO now offers a direct connection between its edge containers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) via a high-speed fiber network link. Crown Castle’s Cloud Connect fiber network will be providing the connection. In a blog post, Matt Trifiro, chief marketing officer of Vapor I...
NAB ushers in the new TV ecosystem
At the NAB 2019 conference, Crown Castle VP Chris Levendos forecasted that a wide rollout of 5G is still three to five years away, but emphasized that the technology does offer the promise of higher bandwidth and lower latency, meaning the ability to handle more data, and faster b...