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FCC authorises nearly $800M from RDOF to Nextlink, Starry and others

Ryan Daws — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:36:24 +0000

The FCC has announced the approval of nearly $800 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) that will go to providers including Nextlink and Starry. Fixed wireless access (FWA) providers are the main beneficiaries of the RDOF fund as the FCC bets on their ability to achieve rural broadband availability targets. “We are excited... Read more »

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Nokia and Safaricom trial Africa’s first 5G FWA network slicing

Ryan Daws — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:28:07 +0000

Nokia and Safaricom have trialled Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing on a live 4G and 5G network in Africa. Network slicing enables operators to divide their networks into multiple virtual slices that can be optimised for a specific application or service. Each slice can be given its own priority in addition to different levels... Read more »

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