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.
Fiber Optics 101 for Chicago’s Youth
Crown Castle has partnered with Chicago's (IL) META24 workforce development program in the Community Youth Development Institute to help students "transform their circumstances" and earn their high school diploma via non-traditional means. The students are taught how to work with fiber optic c...
Business calendar: Upcoming events in the Houston area
Crown Castle president and CEO Jay Brown will be speaking in a webinar hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership this upcoming Thursday, March 24. The webinar is the first installment in a series about the "strategic efforts to position Houston as a top market among leading global companies."
Open XR Forum Expands Membership with Global Tier 1 and Wireless Infrastructure Providers
Crown Castle has joined AT&T, Colt, Telefonica and ZAYO in "the industry initiative and MSA effort to advance the deployment of software-configurable point-to-point and point-to-multipoint coherent optical networks utilizing XR optics pluggable transceiver technology." The goal of the initiati...
Where are Houston’s Fortune 500 companies? Downtown still reigns.
The downtown area in Houston is the top location for the city's Fortune 500 companies, including Crown Castle, Group 1 Automotive and Academy Sports + Outdoors. The majority of Fortune 500s in this area are largely focused on energy and pipelines, consisting of companies like Waste Management,...
The time I visited a Dish 5G cell site
Crown Castle serves as a transport vendor for telecommunications company Dish, combining Dish’s central unit with third-party data centers. This allows Dish to transport its customers' data between the wider, global Internet. Given the success of Dish’s recent cell sites, the compa...
Alation Announces Inaugural Data Radicals Awards
Crown Castle's Claudia Stirk was awarded the Community Champion Award at Alation's Inaugural Data Radicals Awards. The awards celebrate organizations and individuals leading the charge in driving data culture, with Stirk's being presented to the customer "who is the biggest advocate in the bro...