Camouflaged Cell Tower Takes Heat, Gets Redesign
A California town south of Oakland has found a new reason to dislike a cell tower. It’s not the fact that it is located next to a public park or down the street from a church and an elementary school....
View ArticleClimbers Severely Injured but Survive Fall From Texas Tower
Sept. 10-James Allen Gatlin, 24, and Christopher Neal Tallman, 32, are both listed in good condition. That is the miraculous news about the tower climbers who fell 30 feet from a cell site in Archer...
View ArticleTower Top RF Electronics Market to Explode with 4G Overlay
Sept. 10 – Carriers will depend more on innovations in tower mounted amplifiers, remote radio heads and active antennas to meet increasing data capacity demands under CAPEX pressure, according to a...
View ArticleGTP Tower Unscathed After Copter Incident
Sept. 10 — The cell tower that was struck by medevac helicopter in Texas last month with enough force to knock off one of its skids apparently was left unharmed by the incident, according to officials...
View ArticleEven as Smart Phone Sales Skyrocket, AT&T Keeps Eye on Connected Future
In the first two months of the fourth quarter, AT&T sold more than 6.4 million smart phones, which would beat its second largest quarter for smart phone sales and it still has December holiday...
View ArticleMetroPCS Spectrum Catalyzes T-Mobile LTE Push
Neville Ray, chief technology officer, T-Mobile USA, expounded on how the combination of MetroPCS and T-Mobile is accelerating the carrier’s LTE strategy, as Deutsche Telekom hosted a Capital Markets...
View ArticleDT’s U.S. CAPEX Investment in 2013 Good for Towers
Deutsche Telecom is putting its money where its mouth is in the coming year, funding T-Mobile’s LTE and HSPA + rollouts, according to Rene Obermann, CEO, Deutsche Telecom, at the carrier’s Capital...
View ArticlePresident Signs Executive Order Accelerating Broadband Deployment
President Obama signed an executive order in June facilitating the deployment of broadband infrastructure on federal lands, buildings and rights of way, among other areas, particularly in underserved...
View ArticleSlowing AT&T Tower Leasing Offset by T-Mo, Sprint and M2M Increases
By J. Sharpe Smith – September 4, 2014 — While AT&T throttles back, site additions are increasing at T-Mobile and M2M Spectrum Networks, and Sprint may be on the cusp of a new network densification...
View ArticleRural Roaming Partners a Boon to Sprint LTE Build Out
By J. Sharpe Smith – September 10, 2014 — With the inking of LTE agreements with 15 additional rural and regional network carriers, Sprint has now grown its Rural Roaming Preferred Provider program to...
View ArticleNokia Finally Explains Its Product Numbering System
September 29, 2016 — By Ernest Worthman Executive Editor AGL Small Cell Magazine I like Nokia. I have known them for years and have worked with them since the early 2000’s in an editorial capacity. I...
View ArticleVerizon Advances on Multiple Fronts in Q4 and 2016
By J. Sharpe Smith Senior Editor, AGL eDigest On the multi-front war that is now a function of being a wireless carrier, 2016 was a watershed year for Verizon. From 4G densification to fiber, internet...
View ArticleHetNets Improve Coverage, Capacity for MNOs
February 7, 2017 — A strategic partnership between MCF Communications and Syscom Telecom offers mobile network operators the siting alternatives they need for placing antennas in their heterogeneous...
View ArticleShentel, AT&T Trials Feature Massive MIMO
February 16, 2017 – Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) and AT&T have complete completed multiple commercial trials featuring a Massive MIMO in licensed Frequency Division Duplex (FDD)...
View ArticleLTE 4G Forever!
March 21, 2017 By Ernest Worthman Executive Editor, Applied Wireless Technology I recently saw highlights from a report by ABI research. I am very familiar with that firm and have spoken with many of...
View Article4G Will Coexist with 5G in foreseeable Future, GSMA Study
Although 5G captures all the headlines, 4G wireless technology will account for two-thirds of the global mobile connections by 2025, according to GSMA’s second annual ‘Global Mobile Trends’ report...
View ArticleCommScope Markets 4×4 MIMO Antenna for 1400 MHz – 2700 MHz
CommScope has come to market with a 4X4 MIMO antenna that covers the 1400-2700 MHz band, which is designed for use with a 5G-enabling technology. Farid Firouzbakht, senior vice president, RF Products,...
View ArticleSamsung Selected as a 4G LTE Open RAN Provider on Verizon’s 4G LTE Network
Samsung Electronics America has been selected by Verizon to assist in advancing their 4G LTE Open RAN initiative. With this collaboration, both companies are working to increase network efficiencies,...
View ArticleEricsson, Verizon Push 4G Envelope
Ericsson continues to provide Verizon with Ericsson Radio System 4G LTE equipment with the latest advances in 4G LTE capabilities and a 5G-ready platform in new markets, including Ericsson’s...
View ArticleLTE Fuels Surge in Organic Growth at American Tower
While all the headlines belong to 5G, it is clear that LTE deployment is fueling tower growth now and into the future. In the second quarter, American Tower experienced its highest U.S. organic tenant...
View Article
