Only seven business days after it began, the FCC’s 24 GHz spectrum auction “blow past the $1 billion mark Friday (March 22).” The FCC is auctioning the spectrum “to free up more bandwidth for 5G wireless broadband, to help close the rural digital divide, and to make wireless a stronger competitor to wired broadband. New York and L.A. continue to lead, with bids on licenses there of $28,080,000 and $21,606,000, respectively, with Chicago in distant third with $10,436,000.”
Crown CEO: Future points to blend of small cells, fiber
Crown Castle CEO Jay Brown spoke at the company’s third-quarter conference call, where he stressed the importance of mmWave and its reliance on small cell technology. "Because of its RF characteristics, millimeter wave spectrum provides significantly more capacity, but over a fraction of...
Crown Castle Positioned for Carrier Network Expansion
Crown Castle believes it is poised to meet the increasing mobile network operators’ mobile data demands through its fiber, tower and small cell infrastructure assets. The demand increased because of MNO’s spectrum holdings, densifying the networks with small cells, and the availabi...
Stream Data Centers and Crown Castle Bring New Fiber into The Woodlands
Stream Data Centers announced Crown Castle will provide its fiber network into Stream’s Houston I data center in The Woodlands, a business hub 28 miles north of Houston. "Adding Crown Castle to our carrier mix increases connectivity and performance dramatically for our customers. The fib...
As pandemic accelerates need for 5G, Pittsburgh leaders push for statewide legislation
In partnership with Crown Castle, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development hosted a virtual panel to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 5G infrastructure deployment and connectivity in the Pittsburgh region. Crown Castle public affairs manager Renee Morales joined the pane...
Is Denver’s wireless infrastructure meeting the increased demand during COVID-19?
As remote work continues to drive higher dependence on network connectivity, telecommunications infrastructure either has to be upgraded or built to accommodate more devices and increased traffic – an initiative Crown Castle has been working on over the past six years. "Crown Castle has ...
Pandemic push for 5G cellular: ‘How do we get and how do we get it now?’
Real Vail reported on the need for increased 5G infrastructure deployment in Colorado amid the coronavirus pandemic, noting Crown Castle has worked for the last six years to upgrade the state’s wireless infrastructure system. The article includes commentary from Crown Castle’s Mark...