President Obama signed an executive order in June facilitating the deployment of broadband infrastructure on federal lands, buildings and rights of way, among other areas, particularly in underserved communities. The federal government has a wealth of possibilities for infrastructure development; it controls nearly 30 percent of all land in this country, owns thousands of buildings [...]
View ArticleDeutsche Telecom is putting its money where its mouth is in the coming year, funding T-Mobile’s  LTE and HSPA + rollouts, according to Rene Obermann, CEO, Deutsche Telecom,  at the carrier’s Capital Markets Day, Dec. 6, in Bonn, Germany. The biggest chunk of Deutsche Telecom’s total CAPEX next year will be spent in the United [...]
View Article Deutsche Telecom, Rene Obermann, T-Mobile (USA)Neville Ray, chief technology officer, T-Mobile USA, expounded on how the combination of MetroPCS and T-Mobile is accelerating the carrier’s LTE strategy, as Deutsche Telekom hosted a Capital Markets Day at its headquarters, Dec. 6, in Bonn, Germany. T-Mobile’s LTE rollout will reach 100 million pops in the first half of 2013 and 200 million [...]
View Article HSPA+, John Legere, LTE, Neville Ray, T-Mobile (USA)In the first two months of the fourth quarter, AT&T sold more than 6.4 million smart phones, which would beat its second largest quarter for smart phone sales and it still has December holiday sales to come, Ralph De la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility, told an audience at the UBS Global Media and [...]
View Article AT&T, Connected Cars, connected homes, Mobile Wallet, Ralph de la Vega, smart phonesSept. 10 — The cell tower that was struck by medevac helicopter in Texas last month with enough force to knock off one of its skids apparently was left unharmed by the incident, according to officials at Global Tower Partners, which owns the tower. “We did not find any evidence of that chopper hitting any [...]
View Article Global Tower PartnersSept. 10 – Carriers will depend more on innovations in tower mounted amplifiers, remote radio heads and active antennas to meet increasing data capacity demands under CAPEX pressure, according to a report by ABI Research, with the market expected to exceed $4.5 billion by 2017. “Tower top active RF electronics will become more important as [...]
View Article tower top amplifers, Wireless Market ResearchSept. 10-James Allen Gatlin, 24, and Christopher Neal Tallman, 32, are both listed in good condition. That is the miraculous news about the tower climbers who fell 30 feet from a cell site in Archer City, Texas, according to KFDX Fox Channel 3. Tallman suffered a fractured back, ruptured spleen and cuts to an arm. [...]
View Article Tower ClimbersA California town south of Oakland has found a new reason to dislike a cell tower. It’s not the fact that it is located next to a public park or down the street from a church and an elementary school. Residents of Castro Valley complained the 60-foot structure, which was designed to look like a [...]
View Article camouflage, cell tower, T-MobileThe mood was positive during second quarter conference calls of SBA Communications, Crown Castle International and American Tower, but not just because the last quarter was successful. Tower company executives are particularly hopeful that the good times will continue to roll well into the future. SBA continued to experience strong leasing demand in the second [...]
View Article American Tower, cell towers, Crown Castle International, financial results, SBA Communications, second quarter, tower companiesHaving seen its WiMAX network go the way of Sony’s BetaMAX, Sprint has turned on its LTE network, known as Network Vision, in 15 cities in Georgia, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. The initial deployment covers users in the Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio markets. Sprint plans to launch additional LTE markets in [...]
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