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."
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...
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,...
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...