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☆ Techies, salespeople, and industry execs arrive in Las Vegas for the Mobile World Congress trade show
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mobile World Congress, a mobile communications trade show, is coming to Las Vegas this week. Techies, salespeople, and industry executives are arriving in Nevada this week for MWC Las Vegas, which kicks off today. The annual mobile-communications trade show brings more than 250 exhibitors, sponsors, and partners to the Las Vegas Convention Center in Sin City from Tuesday to Thursday. 5G technology is on track to add $210 billion in GDP to the North American economy by 2030, GSMA's "Mobile Economy North America" report said. The trade show in Vegas comes more than seven months after Mobile World Congress Barcelona, which is also hosted by GSMA.

Persons: —, Lara Dewar, GSMA, Dewar, Booz Allen, Ulf Ewaldsson, Nvidia's, Ronnie Vasishta, Shankar Arumugavelu, Randi Zuckerberg, Hug, Mark Zuckerberg's Organizations: Mobile, Las, Service, MWC Las Vegas, Nvidia, Salesforce, Las Vegas Convention, MWC, Vegas, Enterprise, GSMA Intelligence, Verizon, Qualcomm, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Apple Intelligence, Google, MWC Americas, Congress Barcelona, GSMA, Motorola, Lenovo, Verizon Global Services, Department of, Air Force's Locations: Las Vegas, Nevada, Sin City, North, America, Vegas, Venice

☆ Warren sounds alarm on T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular deal with Justice Department, FCC
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Emily Wilkins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators are sounding the alarm over T-Mobile's proposal to acquire most of US Cellular, and asking the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission to closely scrutinize and consider challenging the deal. The $4.4 billion deal announced in May 2024 would allow T-Mobile to use part U.S. Cellular's wireless spectrum to improve its coverage in rural areas and give it access to four million new customers. Under the agreement, U.S. Cellular would retain 70% of its wireless spectrum and towers, leasing space on other towers to T-Mobile. In Monday's letter, the lawmakers also ask the Justice Department to consider unwinding that merger, arguing that it cost customers of competing wireless carriers billions of dollars. A spokesperson for T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter from CNBC.

Persons: Sen, Elizabeth Warren, WASHINGTON, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy, Conn, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, Klobuchar Organizations: Senate Armed Services, Washington , D.C, US Cellular, Justice Department, Federal Communications Commission, CNBC, Cellular, Mobile, Warren, Sprint, Department, U.S Locations: Afghanistan, South, Central Asia, Washington ,, Sens, Minn, U.S

☆ U.S. cellular outage hits thousands of AT&T users
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Large swathes of the U.S. were hit by a cellular outage early on Thursday, with thousands of users reporting disruptions with the services offered by telecom firms including AT&T . More than 32,000 outage incidents were reported with AT&T's service around 4:30 a.m. Impacted cities included San Francisco, Houston and Chicago, the website showed. Users of Verizon , T-Mobile and UScellular also reported issues with the telecom firms' services, according to Downdetector. A post on social media platform X from the San Francisco Fire Department said the outage was impacting people's ability to reach emergency services by dialing 911.

Persons: UScellular Organizations: Verizon, San Francisco Fire Department Locations: San Francisco, Houston, Chicago

☆ AT&T cellular outage in United States disrupts vital services
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including San Francisco. "Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning," AT&T said in a statement to CNBC. The AT&T outage has impacted people's ability to reach emergency services by dialing 911, a post on social media platform X from the San Francisco Fire Department said. "We are aware of an issue impacting AT&T wireless customers from making and receiving any phone calls (including to 911)," the fire department said on the platform. He did not provide information on what the issue could be with the other carrier and did not name the other carrier.

Persons: UScellular, – CNBC's Steven Kopack Organizations: CNBC, San Francisco Fire Department, Verizon, Mobile Locations: United States, San Francisco

☆ US warns of potential 5G delays for airplanes without updated altimeters
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Last year, Verizon VZ.N and AT&T T.N voluntarily agreed to delay some C-Band 5G usage until July as air carriers worked to retrofit airplane altimeters. Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) said Friday its supplier told the airline it would not have enough radio altimeters for Delta’s entire fleet by July 1. Approximately 190 Delta narrowbody aircraft are not yet equipped with updated radio altimeters including all A220s, most A319s and A320s, and some A321s. All Delta widebody aircraft will be equipped with updated radio altimeters prior to July 1, the airline said. Reuters first reported in March that major U.S. wireless carriers agreed to some voluntary actions to address aviation safety concerns.

Persons: Robert Bryan, Read, Pete Buttigieg, Buttigieg, T.N, David Shepardson, Chizu Organizations: Eagle Aviation, Columbia Metro, . Transportation, Airlines for, Verizon, Carriers, Air Lines, Delta, Reuters, Mobile, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, Thomson Locations: West Columbia, South Carolina, U.S, WASHINGTON, Airlines for America

☆ U.S. will not extend July 1 5G airplane retrofit deadline
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Sam WolfeWASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told airlines on Tuesday the Biden administration does not plan to extend a July 1 deadline for airlines to retrofit airplane altimeters to address potential interference, the department confirmed. Buttigieg told airlines on a call the department does not plan to extend the deadline and urged them to work aggressively to continue retrofitting airplanes. Last year, Verizon (VZ.N) and AT&T (T.N) voluntarily agreed to delay some C-Band 5G usage until July 1 as air carriers worked to retrofit airplane altimeters. Separately, the FAA on Tuesday proposed seven airworthiness directives (ADs) for many Boeing (BA.N) aircraft due to the potential for 5G C-band interference. They require revising aircraft flight manuals by June 30 to prohibit some landings and include specific operating procedures for calculating landing distances and certain approaches when in the presence of 5G C-band interference.

☆ Verizon, AT&T to get full C-Band use, extend some 5G safeguards - letter
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Last year, Verizon and AT&T voluntarily agreed to delay some C-Band 5G usage until July as air carriers worked to retrofit airplane altimeters. Reuters first reported in February that the FAA, Verizon and AT&T were in talks to reach a new agreement that sought to extend some voluntary mitigations beyond July 1. Verizon said Friday it "agreed to final voluntary commitments that will allow our company to fully use our C-band spectrum for 5G by the previously agreed to deadline of July 1." The FAA said Friday it continues "to work closely to ensure a safe co-existence in the U.S. 5G C-band environment." UScellular said the "agreement results from collaboration and coordination with the FAA, FCC, and our industry partners to ensure UScellular can deploy our C-band spectrum without delay."

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