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.”
LCEC helps deliver internet and cellular to barrier islands
The Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) in Cape Coral (FL) announced a partnership with Crown Castle to provide connectivity through the fiber optic cables from the LCEC transmission line in town. The LCEC is also working with Verizon, Comcast and Lumen to provide access to the islands thro...
Crown Castle is betting big on distributed workloads
Paul Reddick, SVP of strategy, business and product development at Crown Castle, discussed the future of 5G and the infrastructure industry. Reddick emphasized his confidence in augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) apps for consumers as well as edge computing.
$160,000 Harwood grant to develop free electrical safety awareness training for telecom workers
The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association has been selected by the US Department of Labor — OSHA to receive a $160,000 Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training Grant for the 2022-2023 program year. Ken Hill, Director of Network Safety at Crown Castle and a member of the Associatio...
Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce to host region’s largest networking event
Crown Castle is sponsoring the 2022 B2B Expo in Saratoga Springs (NY), the region’s largest annual networking event. C.J. Day, enterprise sales manager of Crown Castle, stated, "Crown Castle is excited to be sponsoring the B2B Expo again this year. Each year, we leave the event having in...
US cell site count nears half a million
In an article discussing the growing US cell sites, Crown Castle was highlighted as "one of the nation's biggest cell site operators." Crown Castle CFO Dan Schlanger was quoted stating that the company's small cell business is often dragged down by "the time it takes to get all of the things i...
The 2022 Power of Diversity: Latino 100
Ana Rua, Head of Government Affairs for New York at Crown Castle, was featured in City and State's "Power of Diversity: Latino 100" at spot 86. She was highlighted for educating "policymakers on the digital needs of citizens throughout the state and aims to empower disenfranchised citizens by ...