Light Reading published an article about Verizon’s fiber network, FiOS. The article noted that Verizon "historically has rented access to fiber from the likes of…Crown Castle…" However, Verizon’s One Fiber program "threatens to upend some of those relationships…prompting analysts to question whether that would impact Crown Castle…" The article included a quote from Crown Castle CEO Jay Brown from the company’s recent quarterly earnings call stating, "We certainly don’t expect that we’re going to be the sole provider," and that the company is still seeing a major opportunity in the space.
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...
Florida companies building 5G infrastructure are ramping up hiring
While certain parts of Florida have begun to see preparation for 5G, like Jacksonville and Panama City, other areas like southern Florida have yet to receive a time table from carriers. Gartner senior principal analyst Bill Menezes "expects little geographic scale for commercial 5...
5G infrastructure: an investment in public safety
Scott Dunaway, the spokesman for the Texas 5G Alliance, published an op-ed in Tech Titans advocating for the use of 5G infrastructure to find better ways to "use mobile technology to improve the safety of residents during an emergency," which he argued should be a top priority. Du...
Vapor IO, Crown Castle bring AWS to the Kinetic Edge
Vapor IO and Crown Castle have jointly developed a service that seamlessly interconnects Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge with Amazon Web Services via Crown Castle’s high-speed Cloud Connect. Technology integration and direct fiber will unlock new classes of applications, with ...