For years, even before 2019 when Huawei was placed on the Entity List banning it from access to its American supply chain (including Google), the company was considered a national security threat along with ZTE. The Chinese phone and telecom equipment makers…
The mid-band spectrum is the prize behind T-Mobile’s proposed merger with Sprint. The latter owns a hoard of 2.5GHz spectrum and T-Mobile wants it. Why? As T-Mobile CEO John Legere said under oath earlier this month, with Sprint’s spectrum T-Mobile will…
The chairman of the US FCC has urged the agency to reject China Mobile’s applications to provide telecom services in the US market on national security grounds, in the latest salvo in the telecom trade war between China and the US. Federal Communications…
Soon, those searching for a cheap Android tablet won’t have to deal with the lack of Google Play Services found on the low-priced Amazon Fire Tablets. The line, powered by a forked version of Android, does not come with core Google apps including the Play…
Round 29 of the US FCC’s 24-GHz auction closed Wednesday with $1,592,755,155 in gross proceeds, with the nation’s biggest cities garnering millions of dollars in bids. New York topped $41 million and Los Angeles tallied over $31 million. It’s the little town…
Ericsson president and CEO Börje Ekholm recently met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to talk about how the US is making more millimeter wave spectrum available for 5G, its progress in reducing the time involved in tower siting and clearing the way for network…