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Tuesday, June
27...
AT&T Brings Fixed
Wireless Internet Services to Eight More States
AT&T announced that its
Fixed
Wireless Internet services are now available to customers in
eight additional states. The carrier's first Fixed Wireless
deployment took place in Georgia in April, marking the first
time it had employed this technology to reach the difficult
terrain of a rural market with its broadband network. The
installations were made possible by AT&T's participation in the
Federal Communications
Commission's (FCC's) Connect America Fund, a governmental
initiative to bring broadband services to rural and underserved
locations. The eight states included in this rollout are
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and Louisiana. With the original Georgia
installation, this marks a total of 70,000 citizens gaining
access to high-speed Internet thanks to AT&T's launches. The
telecom company said this is still only the first step in a
larger rollout plan which will see it reach 400,000 subscribers
by the end of the year, and 1.1 million by 2020.
WSJ: Sprint in Talks with Combined
Comcast/Charter
The Wall Street
Journal is
reporting that Sprint
has once again put its long-simmering merger talks with
~T-Mobile~ on hold in order to begin negotiating with the
combined unit of Charter
Communications and Comcast.
Although the synergies between the pair and Sprint are fairly
obvious, The Journals sources remain unclear on whether the duo
plans to acquire the fourth-place carrier, or if they would
simply form some type of partnership to bolster the cable
companies' wireless efforts, such as Comcast's X-Fi Mobile
service. The newspaper noted that the negotiations remain
ongoing, and that they are expected to continue through the end
of July.
T-Mobile Announces First LTE-U
Markets Have Gone Live in Select Cities
T-Mobile announced that
its LTE-U network has gone live in select cities for the first
time. The new networking technology uses the publicly available
5GHz band to "bolster existing LTE capacity and give a speed
boost to what is already America's fastest, most advanced 4G LTE
network." The cities included in the initial launch are
Bellevue, WA; Brooklyn, NY; Dearborn, MI; Las Vegas, NV;
Richardson, TX; and Simi Valley, CA, with additional markets
planned to launch some time later this year. The announcement
about the LTE-U launch also included another milestone for the
carrier; it held its first public test of License Assisted
Access (LAA) technology, a wireless broadband protocol that
allows it to reach speeds of 741Mbps download by using the 80MHz
spectrum. However, this technology will still need some time
before it is publicly available.
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