AT&T has FCC approval to turn off copper for 500 wire centers But it’s still facing state pushback, namely from California Alleviating customer concerns is another challenge The road to copper retirement is paved with paperwork, but AT&T seems to...

Dish’s wireless dream crashes and burns as Boost’s network heads for shutdown Was it inevitable? Not necessarily, but a series of misfortunes and missteps paved the way for failure Now all eyes are on EchoStar’s ambitions for a D2D network....

Dell’Oro’s Dave Bolan thinks that a rumored 5G Apple smartwatch could be a tonic for 5G SA market The latest Dell’Oro report said that the mobile core market grew 19% annually and 31% in the 2nd quarter The firm said...

Analysts think EchoStar’s remaining spectrum will likely be put up for sale  SpaceX and T-Mobile have reportedly expressed interest in buying  EchoStar may keep some 2 GHz/AWS-4 spectrum for its direct-to-device ambitions AT&T’s $23 billion EchoStar transaction is set to...

The OnGo Alliance, which represents CBRS users, is amping up efforts to defend its turf, saying more than $14 billion has been invested in the “innovation band” The effort arrives as mobile operators like AT&T are eager to see CBRS...

Verizon deployed flood sensors from startup HyFi in Chicago Other U.S. cities are on its list The sensors are installed above water and use acoustic pulses to measure the water level and detect flooding Deadly and damaging floods have become...

AST SpaceMobile struck a pact to acquire global S-Band rights from an unidentified entity One analyst told Fierce the likely party is Sky and Space Global Investors will have to wait until AST SpaceMobile’s earnings call to get more details...

Helium introduced Helium Plus, an easier way to onboard Wi-Fi hotspot partners The Helium network has more than 102,000 hotspots in the U.S. right now Helium is in talks with more mobile carriers to expand its reach  Helium is making...

Ericsson retains a 50% stake in Aduna Global, with the rest owned by AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon and other operators The joint venture builds on the CAMARA open source project to offer APIs for authentication, service assurance and more Aduna...

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon collectively want to deploy fiber to about 119M U.S. locations Each operator is progressing differently with fiber, but AT&T is most ahead so far Here’s what they said in their Q2 earnings calls about fiber strategy...