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Deloitte: $150B U.S. Fiber Infrastructure Investment for 5G
The U.S. needs $130 billion to $150 billion in fiber network expansion to be fully ready for 5G-based networks and to ensure that the digital economy’s benefits reach all Americans, according to a Deloitte report. The suggested $130 billion to $150 billion fiber infrastructure investment is required in the U.S. to unleash innovation, close the… Read more
Sprint Merger with T-Mobile Gets Closer; Incompatible 2G/3G Technologies is an Issue
German newspaper Handelsblatt yesterday reported that T-Mobile US Inc.’s parent company (Deutsche Telekom AG) favors a merger with Sprint. Deutsche Telekom AG, which controls T-Mobile, aims to maintain control of the combined company after an all-stock deal with Sprint, according to Handelsblatt, which cited sources close to the German company’s management committee and board. Bloomberg reported… Read more
AT&T and KT to work together on 5G, NFV & SDN; Consortium of 5G Carriers Forming?
Executive Summary: According to Business Korea, AT&T Chief Strategy Officer John Donovan met with Lee Dong-myeon, director of the KT (Korea Telecom) Technology Convergence Center to discuss plans for the well respected telcos to share AT&T’s NFV and SDN work and KT’s efforts around 5G. AT&T is expected to cooperate with KT in many new… Read more
LPWAN race for cellular IoT heats up with Vodafone’s successful test of NB-IoT
Vodafone said it has successfully carried out NB-IoT (Narrow Band – Internet of Things) interoperability tests, paving the way for a global rollout of NB-IoT services in the near future. The U.K.-based global wireless telco said it has tested modules made by Neul and Qualcomm with network equipment from Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia in multiple regions…. Read more
Parks Associates: >75% of U.S. households use WiFi for in home connectivity
Parks Associates reports that more than 75% of data in U.S. homes is carried via Wi-Fi connectivity. Wi-Fi is doing the large majority of work when it comes to home networking and data transport in U.S. broadband households amid ongoing rapid growth in network usage and data consumption, Parks’ senior director of research Harry Wang highlighted…. Read more
Forrester Research: IoT Upsets Application Development- Hello Streaming & Machine Learning!
by Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research (adapted from Forrester Research white paper “IoT Upsets Application Development”) Overview: This is a follow on to the recent IoT post: Cisco Study: Few IoT projects survive proof-of-concept stage; Electric Imp on why not? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Internet of things (IoT) is the latest transformational technology, extending ubiquitous connectivity and control to… Read more
AT&T Launches Nationwide LTE Cat M Network + FTTP & Broadband Bundles
AT&T’s LTE Cat M (LTE-M) network is now live across the U.S. on the company’s nationwide LTE network after software upgrades. The deployment was ahead of schedule and comes approximately seven weeks after rival Verizon launched its own LTE-M offering. In an earlier techblog post this week, Sprint said it will deploy LTE-M in mid 2018…. Read more
Residential Broadband: Fiber Access Now #1; Deep Fiber Penetration; Wireless Substitution & Forecasts
Fiber Tops DSL for Fixed Broadband Access: Fiber has surpassed DSL as the most common fixed broadband access type, accounting for 43.2% of the global market, market research firm SNL Kagan wrote in a recently released market research report (subscription required). Kagan is a unit of S&P Global Intelligence. Growth in fiber network deployment rose a… Read more
AT&T to Trial Highly Touted AirGig Technology for fronthaul/backhaul
AT&T plans to conduct two trials of its AirGig millimeter-wave technology to show how it could be an alternative to fiber-based fronthaul (access) and backhaul, AT&T’s President of Technology Operations Bill Hogg said at the Jefferies 2017 Global Technology Conference which was webcast. Mr. Hogg mostly talked about the evolution of AT&Ts wireless network as it moves… Read more
Service Providers Talk White Box Trials & Future at 2017 NFV World Congress
Introduction: The 2017 NFV World Congress was held May 2-5, 2017 in San Jose, CA. This author attended the first two days and was quite impressed with the depth and breadth of the presentations and panel sessions. According to conference Chair Mark Lum, there were over 40 network operator speakers and/or panelists on the program. Those… Read more