During T-Mobile’s fourth-quarter 2018 results call, executives maintained that they’re "ready and excited for the launch of the company’s nationwide 5G network." T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said the company is adding "thousands upon thousands of new sites with 600Mhz capability," already leading to the highest network capacity and lowest tower congestion in the company’s history. When asked about 5G handset availability, Ray noted "some T-Mobile 5G phones will be available in the first half of 2019, but phones with both 600Mhz and millimeter wave support are ‘strong possibilities’ for the second half of 2019."
Exclusive: Major communications infrastructure co. plans $55M, 420K SF building in Houston
Houston Business Journal and Houston Chronicle reported on Crown Castle’s plans to build a new 420,000-square-foot facility along Interstate 10 just west of the 610 Loop. The article noted that while it is currently unclear for what Crown Castle intends to use the space for,...
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.&...
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 e...
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...
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 compan...
State’s fiber investments bring speed, reliability and recognition
Crown Castle is investing in speed upgrades in Wilmington, Delaware, moving from 10gbps to 100 gbps, said Stephen Barnosky, account executive in enterprise fiber. Crown laid down its first Delaware fiber in 2005 and now has a network of more than 600 route miles statewide. To compensate for th...