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News Wire Feed Light Reading 1/20/2021 WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission today denied a request to stay its unanimous decision to authorize Ligado Networks to deploy a low-power terrestrial nationwide network using portions of its licensed spectrum. A petition filed by the U.S. Department of Commerces National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last May sought to delay the proceeding, but the Commission rul...

Samsungs latest phones feature all kinds of fancy technologies and functions – OLED screens, Snapdragon 888 CPUs, at least 8 GB of RAM and plenty of other acronyms – that have been exhaustively outlined by gadget-focused publications like The Verge and Cnet. However, the phones are also significant for the 5G industry for these five reasons: 1. Theyre $200 cheaper than previous versions. The initial batch of 5G phones from Samsung and others were searingly expensive. Indeed, most 5G smartphon...

During my self-imposed quarantine away from my now typical reading diet of literary giants, I took some time to see what people were writing about the telecom world, since this is the usual time for year-end wrap-ups and new year predictions. I agree with Iain Morris that the crystal balls usefulness is stymied by the realities of todays world and appreciated his clever approach of predicting non-events. In that spirit, I will forego predictions and instead share my reactions to some of what I...

DENVER – CSG (NASDAQ: CSGS) today announced it has appointed Ken Kennedy as chief operating officer and president of its Revenue Management and Digital Monetization solutions unit. Previously president of technology and product, Kennedy has dedicated the last 15 years of his career at CSG to leading the companys product management, engineering, and platform operations across CSGs solutions portfolio. A forerunner in cloud technology, Kennedy will leverage his expertise to accelerate the growt...

The Small Cell Forum (SCF) said it will begin working on hosting architectures that support multiple operators, private networking and other alternative deployment models.