AT & T bringing 5G to Charlotte, Raleigh, Oklahoma City

AT & T revealed three more cities that will receive 5G by the end of this year, with the carrier bringing its new network to Charlotte, Raleigh, and Oklahoma City.

The three new cities will join Dallas, Atlanta, and Waco to gain access to AT & T's 5G network, with six more cities yet to be announced. The carrier is also planning to commercially launch a 5G Wi-Fi hotspot by the end of 2018.

"We are deliberately launching with a mix of large and medium sized cities," said AT & T.

"A competitor We recently agreed that" all Americans should have access to next-generation connectivity to avoid a new digital divide "

" We are ready to be the first "

AT & T also announced that its LTE-LAA (Licensed Assisted Access) technology has been launched in eight new markets: Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Texas, San Jose, California, Tampa, Florida, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama

In November, AT & T announced that it would deploy LTE-LAA commercial technology to push its network at theoretical 1 Gbit / s speeds, with 4×4 multi-input multiple outputs (MIMO 4×4)), 3x carrier aggregation, and 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) technologies.

It has now been deployed in 15 markets, including Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Boston, Mbadachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and McAllen, Texas

AT & T is focused on its 5G deployment, testing the technology in 2017 and announcing last month a fixed wireless 5G test in South Bend, Indiana, using its broadband network fiber and millimeter waves. Contrary to laboratory and field tests, the carrier stated that it was delivering 5G fixed wireless services to several residential premises in the South Bend area, a household seeing speeds of 1 Gbps and less latency. of 20 milliseconds. 19659002] Its 5G core technology is also present in more than 140 markets.

AT & T also announced the launch of its full-fiber network at Bowling Green, Kentucky; Florence, South Carolina; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and Lake Charles, Louisiana – having previously announced the AT & T Fiber Zones of Amarillo, Beaumont and Waco, Texas; Evansville, Indiana; Gainesville and Pensacola, Florida; Springfield, Illinois; Northeastern Mississippi; and the city of Panama

AT & T Fiber – which offers speeds of up to 1 Gbps – has reached up to now over 9 million zones across the United States, with projects to reach 14 million locations in 84 urban areas by mid-2019.

"Our fiber expansions across the country will help AT & T reach its goal of being the first US operator to provide a 5G mobile service, which we plan to launch in 12 cities from here. end of the year "In an interview with ZDNet in February, Igal Elbaz, senior vice president of AT & T's wireless network architecture and design, said the Carrier was ahead of the 5G thanks to peripheral computing and network virtualization. The carrier is the world leader in "standards-based mobile 5G," announced Elbaz, after announcing in January that it would provide 5G non-autonomous (NSA) services in 12 markets by the end of this year. 2018.

"We are very well positioned because of our experience in SDN, and because of what we do in 5G, and because of what we do on the sidelines," he told ZDNet

] "And you see in all three dimensions, we are very active in everyone, we believe that we have an opportunity not only unique, but an advantage over the way we think about the network and how we need the deploy. "

Elbaz also stated that the acquisition of FiberTower by AT & T in February and the mmWave spectrum The result" places us where we need to be "

While its initial 5G networks n & # 39 will use only the mmWave spectrum, the SVP also stated that the deployment AT & T will use its low and medium band spectrum in the future.

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