---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190805140747.GA10641@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:07:47 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 'The biggest hurdle': Telecom companies talk about rights of way obstacles By Noel Lyn Smith FARMINGTON - Three telecommunication companies discussed the obstacles in obtaining rights of way on the Navajo Nation during a discussion at the Rural Networks Conference at San Juan College on July 31. Representatives for Frontier Communications, Sacred Wind Communications and CenturyLink spoke about the problem during the conference's panel discussion about telecommunications on tribal lands, which was organized by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2019/07/31/telecom-wireless-network-companies-talk-rights-way-obstacles-navajo-nation/1877400001/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190805140306.GA10572@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:03:06 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Opinion: How John Legere and Charlie Ergen plan to reinvent wireless By Jeff Kagan When the smoke clears and the T-Mobile, Sprint merger is complete, we may be hearing quite a bit more from both John Legere and Charlie Ergen. The merged company will be run by Legere, current head of T-Mobile. It also looks like Ergen of Dish Network will be the new player in wireless. I think these two see themselves re-writing the entire wireless industry. So, let's take a closer look at what we can expect as investors, customers, workers and competitors. First, I think this merger between T-Mobile and Sprint is great for both of them because it combines the marketing of one company and the spectrum of the other. Both have strengths and weaknesses. Combining will help them be a stronger third place competitor. https://www.rcrwireless.com/20190805/opinion/kagan-legere-ergen-wireless -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190805135617.GA10526@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 13:56:17 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: In its quest for optimal 5G spectrum, AT&T is testing in the 4.4-5 GHz band The US operators, and the FCC, have made a virtue out of necessity by taking some creative approaches to address their shortage of optimal 5G spectrum. While the 3.5 GHz C-band is the primary new spectrum band in which most first-phase 5G networks are being rolled out, in the USA, this is occupied by federal and other incumbents. With the US operators lacking access to significant amounts of spectrum in this band, they will be denied the economies of scale of a global ecosystem, and AT&T and Verizon will be at a disadvantage to Sprint (and T-Mobile, assuming they merge), which has midband spectrum in 2.5 GHz. https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/in-its-quest-for-optimal-5g-spectrum-att-is-testing-in-the-4-4-5-ghz-band/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 06 Aug 2019