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Specter of Fixed Wireless Seemingly Lives in Wireline Executives’ Heads

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For all the talk about how fixed wireless access service doesn’t represent a real threat to wireline broadband, wireline executives spend a lot of time talking about the wireless technology during earnings calls and investor conferences. Impact: In the most recent earnings cycle and ensuing investor conferences that inevitably follow every round of quarterly earnings, …

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Aviation Industry Pushes to Make C-Band Restrictions Permanent  

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After the debacle surrounding the launch of C-band spectrum into the 5G networks of AT&T and Verizon earlier this year amid concerns about airplane interference, the FCC and the FAA (under guidance from the U.S. Department of Transportation) have worked hard to keep discussions between the two camps productive.   Impact: But now a new …

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Verizon’s Mobile Business Not Likely to Turn Around in Q3  

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Anyone expecting a third quarter turnaround in Verizon’s mobile fortunes likely wasn’t happy with CEO Hans Vestberg’s recent admission that the carrier expects to lose phone customers again in Q3. Impact: For those counting, that means Verizon will have lost wireless retail postpaid phone customers in all three quarters so far in 2022 after losing …

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Shentel Reveals Big Fiber Plans During Q4 Earnings

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The fiber buildout craze sweeping the country also extends to smaller regional players like Virginia-based Shentel, which has been implementing its own fiber deployment strategy under the Glo Fiber brand name across a four-state footprint. Impact: Shentel’s Glo Fiber service is currently active in 12 markets across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, including eight …

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Verizon’s Bold Play

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Verizon’s announcement this week that it will launch a new video aggregation service called +play amounts to its current strategy on steroids. The carrier already partners with third-party streamers from Disney, AMC Networks, Sling TV, Discovery, and others to bolster its core wireless business, with the Disney bundle including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ even coming …

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C-Band Deployment: Another Delay on the Road to Potential Resolution

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After first rejecting a request from U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson to delay the C-band deployments scheduled to start Jan. 5, 2022, AT&T and Verizon relented and agreed to a two-week delay. Impact: The delay until Jan. 19, 2022, is the second the two wireless carriers have agreed …

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