Tag: C-Band

August 5, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission’s 2.5 GHz auction has rounded up just $143 million in gross bids after nine rounds. The auction raised about $103 million in its first day, with six hours of bidding. IT has only brought that total […]

July 26, 2022

Opensignal’s latest report digs into the mobile experience when connected to the top three U.S. carrier’s premium — or enhanced, as the testing firm puts it — 5G services: AT&T’s 5G+, T-Mobile’s Ultra Capacity 5G (5G UC) and Verizon’s 5G […]

June 20, 2022

Verizon, AT&T, aviation industry players and federal regulators say they have come up with a series of steps that will balance continued protection of aircraft radio altimeters from potential interference by terrestrial 5G C-Band operations, but allow the carriers to […]

April 27, 2022

At the end of last year, an Ookla report positioned the U.S. as the world leader for 5G availability, but when compared to other early 5G adopting countries, it fell short in the category of 5G speed, ranking dead last. […]

April 25, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission has formally begun a proceeding to gather information about wireless receiver performance, and how it might encourage better performance in wireless receivers—an effort that has bipartisan support on the commission, and which could represent a turning […]

March 3, 2022

As discussions among operators turn to monetizing massive investments in 5G networks, Verizon today held an investor event that laid out in detail how it sees its network creating new service revenue in the near term. Key drivers of revenue […]

February 4, 2022

As the debate over whether terrestrial C-Band cellular networks can safely co-exist with aviation altimeters continues to play out — and carriers put off lighting up towers near some U.S. airports to accommodate concerns about interference — Viavi Solutions says […]

January 14, 2022

Despite mobile network operators AT&T and Verizon working out a compromise solution with the Federal Aviation Administration to guard against possible C-Band interference in an attempt to avoid air travel impacts, the federal agency has issued more than 1,400 warnings […]

January 10, 2022

50 U.S. airports have been given 5G buffer zones per an agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and AT&T and Verizon. Following some back and forth between the two parties, the list of airports was published on Friday, and […]

November 5, 2021

Verizon and AT&T have agreed to press pause on the rollout of their C Band networks following warnings issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the 5G spectrum could interfere with aviation safety systems. Both carriers had originally planned […]

September 13, 2021

What are technical and operational challenges in the midband spectrum for companies operating networks in the United States? In every spectrum band, there are some sort of challenges that wireless systems have to deal with: Limited channel bandwidth, passive intermodulation, […]

August 30, 2021

There have been two recent U.S. midband spectrum auctions for spectrum between 3-4 GHz: The shared spectrum of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum and the C-Band auction. How did those fall out in terms of spectrum won? The […]