With a broad boost from U.S. Reps. Anna G. Eshoo and Jackie Speier (D-Palo Alto, Hillsborough), a large coalition of Western cities and counties are waging a legal showdown with a shuttered federal government in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over control of 5G wireless installations. Eshoo's bill, H.R. 530 -- called the Accelerating Wireless Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 2019, "essentially resets the clock on the FCC's new rules by erasing what the federal government has implemented in the under-the-wire maneuver." Eshoo noted "5G is essential for our country's communications network and economy, but it must be deployed responsibly and equitably."
NAB show wrap: The trends that mattered this year
During the National Association of Broadcasters' annual tech fest, 5G was a topic of importance on attendees minds. Crown Castle’s Chris Levendos "projected that a wide rollout is still three to five years away — but the technology does offer the promise higher bandwidth and...
ABNY Talks – Mobile broadband infrastructure by Chris Levendos
Crown Castle VP of Network Engineering and Operations Chris Levendos presented on mobile broadband infrastructure to the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) this past January, stating "some of the key infrastructure investments that are necessary here in New York City to enab...
Facebook, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Verizon to discuss network connectivity future at Connect (X)
Crown Castle President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Brown will be one of the keynote addresses at Connect (X), an infrastructure-centric technology event "focusing on the changing nature ‘the network’ and the new opportunities in the business of connectivity." One o...
Getting Pittsburgh ready for 5G!
Crown Castle Government Affairs Director Jonathan Hart published an op-ed in PGH Tech Fuse about efforts in Pennsylvania to deploy 5G technology. Hart notes that, "Crown Castle and the Pittsburgh Technology Council have been prominent members of the Partnership, working to educate...
5G brings optimism and concern to NAB Show 2019
The upcoming NAB Show has an impressive lineup of 5G-focused sessions that "will be topped by a keynote session featuring executives from Intel, Samsung and network-infrastructure vendor Crown Castle." FierceVideo predicted that the "picture likely to emerge from those conversatio...
AT&T maintains top spot for US fibre lit buildings
AT&T "has topped Vertical Systems Group’s US fibre lit buildings leaderboard for the third consecutive year." Crown Castle, along with Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, Zayo, Altice USA and Windstream were listed as the companies with the mos...