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Two cell tower industry veterans, Tom Remillard and Jim Rech, have teamed with Peppertree Capital Management to form Blue Sky Towers, which will focus on developing and managing wireless infrastructure with an interesting mix. Two-thirds of the sites will be on rooftops, and the other third will be new towers. “We want to be a… Continue »
With the purchase of Cellular Specialties, Westell Technologies continues its diversification and expansion into the telecommunications industry. Westell, formerly known for modems and teleconferencing, added the in-building wireless design and development capability of CSI for the purchase price of $39 million. Westell sold its Customer Networking Solutions modem division to NetGear and its teleconference subsidiary… Continue »
Carrier aggregation development, which has been accelerating in the last year, led to products that were all the rage at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. Each promises giant leaps in data throughput. Huawei’s demonstration of LTE-Advanced FDD+TDD convergence carrier aggregation across FDD and TDD LTE modes and Vodafone’s involvement are particularly interesting, according… Continue »
How else should a carrier mark the anniversary of its LTE rollout but by announcing a network upgrade? T-Mobile US did just that this month. As its LTE network rollout surpassed 210 million people in 273 metro areas, the carrier (or uncarrier, as they like to be called) announced that it is upgrading its 2G/EDGE… Continue »
Rep. Don Parsons (R-Marietta) got his wish. As the author of the Mobile Broadband Infrastructure Leads to Development (BILD) Act, he had vowed to continue working for the bill’s passage after it failed to come up for a vote last year. The bill, which is designed to expedite the deployment of wireless infrastructure, has passed… Continue »
Cisco has been providing a form of small cell using unlicensed spectrum to the enterprise market for more than 10 years, and several years ago it started providing licensed femtocells in residences for AT&T. But it was not until last year, with the purchase of Ubiquisys, Intucell and Broadhop, that it got serious about small… Continue »
