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."
Private 5G Networks Enable Enterprise Digital Transformation
5G Americas, the wireless industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, announced the publication of a whitepaper titled 5G Technologies in Private Networks. The paper highlights the role of private networks in the 5G era in creating new enterprise opportunities. Crown C...
Network Bytes: Hurricane Electric, Crown Castle, Telia Carrier, RETN
Reporer Rob Powell of Telecom Ramblings provided an overview of network expansions worth noting from the past week, including Crown Castle’s fiber extension into Texas. "Crown Castle is extending its metro fiber reach in the Lone Star state. Late last week, they unveiled plans to build o...
Crown CEO: Future points to blend of small cells, fiber
Crown Castle CEO Jay Brown spoke at the company’s third-quarter conference call, where he stressed the importance of mmWave and its reliance on small cell technology. "Because of its RF characteristics, millimeter wave spectrum provides significantly more capacity, but over a fraction of...
Crown Castle Positioned for Carrier Network Expansion
Crown Castle believes it is poised to meet the increasing mobile network operators’ mobile data demands through its fiber, tower and small cell infrastructure assets. The demand increased because of MNO’s spectrum holdings, densifying the networks with small cells, and the availabi...
Stream Data Centers and Crown Castle Bring New Fiber into The Woodlands
Stream Data Centers announced Crown Castle will provide its fiber network into Stream’s Houston I data center in The Woodlands, a business hub 28 miles north of Houston. "Adding Crown Castle to our carrier mix increases connectivity and performance dramatically for our customers. The fib...
Preserving Key Communications
The University of Delaware and Crown Castle reached an agreement to build a communications tower to provide connectivity for everyday mobile use and emergency communications. "Our goal was to find a partner to build a new communications tower that would continue to be effective and reliable fo...