Construction software developer HCSS “celebrated the close of its annual Construction Intern Awards program by presenting Kent Beecham a $10,000 Intern of the Year scholarship check at HCSS’s Users Group Meeting.” The awards included scholarships for four finalists, including Jessica Francis, a West Virignia University student interning with Crown Castle.
AT&T strikes partnership with Microsoft involving network tech
AT&T is testing how to bring network edge compute capabilities into its 5G network with cloudcomputing service Microsoft Azure. In connection with the effort, AT&T is creating a site for the technology, which helps speed up wireless access for businesses, at the AT&T Foundry in Pl...
Telcos bet on connecting everything to recoup 5G costs
Industry association GSMA, which hosts the Mobile World Congress, sees a vast opportunity in 5G. It estimates the number of devices connected to the IoT "will triple to 25 billion by 2025, generating a fourfold rise in revenues to $1.1 trillion." Borje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson, sai...
Verizon says 5G will arrive in 30 cities in late 2019
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told investors on Thursday that Verizon’s 5G network will be deployed in 30 cities this year. However, the company did not say which cities will be first, or how widely the technology will be deployed in the selected places. Verizon "confirmed that ...
Three big tech trends for 2019
Forbes contributor Ross Gerber, CEO and president of Gerber Kawasaki Inc., outlined three big technology trends for 2019, including 5G wireless technology. He noted that the coming 5G network will present opportunities for not only service providers like Verizon, FiOS and Spectrum...
Diversification seems the way forward
Crown Castle was cited as an example of asset class diversification in a Communications Today article, which discussed the high demand for "fiber-to-the-small-cell." "Crown Castle in the US has acquired many fibercos – including Lightower, FiberNet, and NextG – to prov...
Samsung announces the Galaxy S10 5G
Samsung announced the launch of a top-tier model of the Galaxy S10 that offers 5G mobile data connectivity. Samsung says the S10 5G "can download a full season of a TV show in minutes, play graphics-rich cloud games with virtually no lag, enjoy enhanced VR and AR experiences and s...