Category: 5G
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The $5 Crypto-Powered 5G Service Just Unveiled a New Mobile Hotspot
Nova Labs turned heads in August when it unveiled Helium Mobile, a $5-a-month 5G wireless service that was partly powered by crowd-sourced mini-towers that offered cryptocurrency as a reward. Helium is a complicated service that takes a bit to wrap your mind around. It’s back with a much simpler offering: a Wi-Fi hotspot puck. The…
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Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2 Event: What we Expect and How to Watch
Google is set to unveil its newest smartphone and smartwatch at its “Made by Google” event in New York on Wednesday, October 4. But fortunately, you don’t have to be in the Big Apple to check out all of the live updates. The online giant is slated to officially reveal the Pixel 8 and Pixel…
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T-Mobile is Another Step Closer to Unlocking Spectrum It Already Bought For $304M
The U.S. Senate can rarely agree on anything, but it came together on Friday to unanimously pass a bill proposed by Sen. John Kennedy to temporarily re-authorize the Federal Communications Commission to allocate spectrum, a move that gets T-Mobile closer to tapping into spectrum it’s been patiently waiting to get its hands on. Kennedy, a…
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T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Satellite-Cellular Partnership May Be Grounded For Now
A little more than a year ago, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came together to unveil a partnership to offer a hybrid service that utilized satellites to boost the coverage and range of cellphones, with a promises of expanding coverage and eliminating dead zones for customers. Fast forward to today, and…
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FCC Is Ramping Up its Efforts to Provide 5G Home Internet Access to Rural America
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking further comment on its effort to connect more Americans with a 5G network, with a goal of better using its updated coverage map to dole out needed funds. The FCC released a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to “refresh the record” for the 5G Fund for Rural Americans to…
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Telecom and Cable Companies Are Starting to Mirror Each Other as Cord Cutting Takes Center Stage
The telecom companies and the cable providers, with legacies of providing phone and video services, respectively, have traditionally been like water and oil or fire and ice – industries that are diametrically opposed to each other. But a funny thing happened: They increasingly started to look and act more like each other. Two decades ago,…
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T-Mobile, a Wireless Provider, May Be Placing a Bigger Bet on Fiber
T-Mobile may be taking a page out of its telecom rivals Verizon and AT&T and moving in fiber optics in a bigger way. The wireless carrier, which distinguishes itself from its competitors by focusing almost entirely on wireless — home and mobile — is in discussions with the fiber business of Tillman Global Holdings to…
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AT&T Says It Isn’t Interested in Buying USCellular
Regional wireless carrier USCellular is looking at potential suitors. Don’t count AT&T as one of them. AT&T Chief Financial Officer Pascal Desroches was asked about the company’s appetite for acquiring USCellular, and he was clear with his response. “We really like our wireless business and I don’t think that particular asset would change anything demonstrable…
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T-Mobile May Finally Get Valuable 5G Spectrum It Bought Thanks to Proposed Senate Bill
T-Mobile has been patiently waiting for $304 million worth of spectrum licenses that it purchased in last year’s Federal Communications Commission auction, radio airwaves it can’t get its hands on because of a political and technical battle raging in Washington D.C. A new proposed Senate bill may help the carrier get around the regulatory red…
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Verizon CEO Expects to Reach 4 to 5 Million 5G Home Internet Customers by the End of 2025
During Verizon’s second quarter earnings call, the company announced some struggles. Verizon reported a decline in total revenue since the second quarter of 2022. The company also lost 69,000 Fios TV customers, though that’s in large part due to the Fios being discontinued so it’s not a shocking result. Even so, Verizon remains hopeful about…