Nice FWA/BWA News on CBRS and multiband Hotspots w/5G mmWave from AT&T
It isn't revenue news, just relevant to FWA/BWA TAM timing.
Now, where are our friends at AirWire? Too quiet for too long.
Watch the Olympics in Korea for lots of 5G hotspot news this month.
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AT&T to Spend Trump Tax Bump on Fiber, 5G 'Foundation' DAN JONES, Mobile Editor 1/31/2018... The CEO reiterated that AT&T expects to be the first US operator to deliver commercial mobile 5G late in 2018. AT&T is continuing its fixed wireless 5G tests too, Stephenson said. (See AT&T Expects 5G in Late 2018 or Early '19.)... The CEO shed a little light on what the 5G "mobile device" will be for the first 12 mobile markets. "It's not going to be a handset, because handsets just aren't available, think of this as a puck," he said. That at least sounds like a 5G-to-WiFi router to share the signal with other devices...
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AT&T's 'Mobile' 5G: What the Puck? DAN JONES, Mobile Editor 1/31/2018
Some times the good stuff is hidden by another title. Federated calls for a date of June 30.
fiercewireless.com
T-Mobile: Smaller license areas in CBRS would result in inefficient use of spectrum by Monica Alleven | Feb 1, 2018... Federated Wireless, one of the companies positioning to serve as a SAS administrator, reiterated its desire to see the commission move ahead on the CBRS band and get final certification of SAS administrators and Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) operators done by June 30, 2018. As soon as GAA operations commence, CBRS users will be able to provide consumers up to 150 MHz of additional bandwidth....
GE is a big, powerful influence that will get the FCC to give attention to the need for existing rules and a quicker rollout.
fiercewireless.com
City and Port of Los Angeles argue for keeping existing framework for CBRS by Monica Alleven | Jan 31, 2018
Add the City and Port of Los Angeles to the list of entities arguing for the FCC to resist making wholesale changes to the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) rules for the 3.5 GHz band and instead keep them as they were agreed upon in 2015...
General Electric also weighed in and focused its comments on the industrial IoT, saying it wants to keep the census-tract licensing plan for the benefit of localized, secure private LTE networks in industrial and critical-infrastructure environments and other enterprise settings... The company also said that virtually the only parties that favor a shift to PEA-based licensing in the 3.5 GHz band are the major wireless carriers and their main trade association... the major carriers would turn CBRS into just another generic, commercial wireless band to be integrated into their multiband networks...
A GooFi/GooWi Update
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Google Fiber’s fixed wireless service, Webpass, closes Boston operation by Mike Dano | Jan 31, 2018 10:48am
Boston is no longer listed on Webpass' website. (Webpass) Webpass, the fixed wireless provider that Google purchased in 2016 and put under its Google Fiber business, has shuttered operations in Boston. Webpass now offers fixed wireless services in seven remaining markets: Chicago, Denver, Miami, Oakland/East Bay, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle...
Charter preps to go commercial
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Charter hints at 25 Mbps fixed wireless speeds using 3.5 GHz in rural areas by Mike Dano | Jan 31, 2018 |
