Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young is the lead sponsor on a bill filed yesterday that would seek a charter amendment in November 2020 to permanently revoke the authority of city officials to sell “Baltimore’s 700-mile, century-old underground conduit system, a move supporters say could encourage a public broadband system in the future.”
Crown Castle sees synergies between enterprise and small cell fiber builds
Crown Castle continues to pledge commitment to bring its array of fiber services to large enterprise business customers. The article included comments from Jay Brown's at the Communacaopia and Technology Conference, related to their fiber business and overall profitability.
Verizon deploys private 5G in hospital
Verizon deployed a private 5G network in the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, offering advanced clinical capabilities such as AR-assisted presurgical guidance, virtual 3D X-rays and VR-assisted medical learning. The network enables real-time patient care decisions, and is part of...
Broadband Breakfast to Release Middle Mile Report Ahead of Special Connect (X) Session
Broadband Breakfast will be hosting Connect (X) on May 10th for a discussion focused on the Middle Mile Program and its impact on last-mile deployment efforts and the role of state broadband offices. Crown Castle will be represented by Drew Colbow at the discussion alongside representatives fr...
T-Mobile Network’s New Normal
T-Mobile won the 2.5 GHz Education Broadband Service/Broadband Radio Service licenses in Auction 108, and the company will systematically activate those licenses to augment its existing 2.5 GHz spectrum where it needs additional coverage. Additionally, T-Mobile recently partnered with Crown Ca...
Midband 5G reaches the halfway point in US, Crown Castle CEO says
Midband 5G radios have been installed on half of the roughly 40,000 cell towers that Crown Castle owns, company officials said during a quarterly conference call. "To date, only about half of our sites across our top three customers [Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile] have been upgraded with midband ...
Lumen SVP says 400G upgrades set the stage for edge, security push
Lumen hit a milestone with its ongoing 400G network upgrade, completing enough routes to launch inter-city wavelength services covering 70 markets. However, Lumen is squaring off in the market against the likes of Zayo, AT&T, Verizon, Windstream, Crown Castle and Aurelion.