Tag: us cellular

March 6, 2024

UScellular yesterday announced that it has teamed with two wireless industry innovators to create a push-to-talk (PTT) bundle for public safety, hospitality, transportation, education, utilities and logistics use cases. ESChat provides the PTT software solution and Siyata provides the push-to-talk […]

November 13, 2023

Private wireless is a relatively new space in the wireless industry. It is very different from public wireless, which is what we are familiar with. This has been with us for a few years, but both interest from various enterprise […]

September 19, 2023

Private wireless is a relatively new space and now it is evolving to the next level. US Cellular just announced they are partnering with Betacom to deliver private wireless service to their enterprise and business customers. Partnering is a quicker […]

August 30, 2023

US Cellular announced it would be able to expand its 5G network faster than expected, as it has received full access to the 5G C-Band spectrum that it was awarded from Auction 107 in March 2021, the telco said in […]

February 9, 2023

US Cellular has announced its partnership with Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s (UWM) Connected Systems Institute (CSI) manufacturing research facility to deploy a 5G private cellular network solution to support next-generation IoT sensors and controls. Ericsson and Rockwell Automation are also involved in the […]

September 29, 2022

Rural carriers are weighing the “when” and “how” of the transition to 5G, both in terms of technical issues and business cases. During a carrier panel at the Competitive Carriers annual convention this week, representatives from US Cellular, Alaska’s GCI […]

August 5, 2022

It reaffirmed its full-year guidance, with service revenue projected to finish at between $3.1 and $3.2 billion, and EBITDA at between $925 million and $1.08 billion. The firm noted improvements in retail revenues and average user revenue (ARPU) in the […]

June 22, 2022

US Cellular and Ericsson have begun testing the performance of the carrier’s 5G network at altitude using drone technology. The trials, which were supported by the Ericsson Connected Drone Testing and Ericsson Device Analytics, involved flying a drone outfitted with […]

May 26, 2022

US Cellular announced new agreements with Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia to boost the carrier’s 5G network infrastructure. US Cellular and Ericsson inked a deal which includes the deployment of the telco’s recently acquired C-band and 3.45 GHz spectrum, which […]

September 10, 2021

Finnish vendor Nokia has been selected by US Cellular for the deployment of the latter’s Standalone 5G core network. The European vendor said that the 5G SA deployment is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The new […]

September 8, 2021

As the telecom ecosystem gets deeper into CBRS deployments and eagerly awaits the availability of C-Band spectrum, carriers and vendors are partnering on numerous tests and trials of various aspects of the two bands. In the C-Band, most testing is […]

August 9, 2021

US Cellular President and CEO Laurent Therivel painted a vision of a highly competitive wireless landscape for the rest of 2021, populated with aggressive offers to entice 5G adoption among consumers. He said that the wireless carrier is optimistic about […]

June 8, 2021

Just weeks after pushing the limits of 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) by demonstrating sustained average downlink speeds of about 1 Gbps and peak speeds of more than 2 Gbps in its live network at a distance of 7 kilometers, US […]

May 7, 2021

US Cellular continues to push the limits of 5G millimeter wave, announcing this week that it was able to demonstrate sustained average downlink speeds of about 1 Gbps and peak speeds of more than 2 Gbps in its live network […]

April 27, 2021

AT&T and US Cellular both received permission from the Federal Communications Commission this week to prepare for new deployments of C Band spectrum by testing network equipment that will operate at 3.7-3.8 GHz. AT&T was granted a one-year period to […]

February 22, 2021

According to its President and CEO Laurent Therivel, US Cellular “met the challenges of 2020 successfully,” with the carrier reporting a total operating revenue of $1.073 billion for the fourth quarter and $4 billion for the year, representing a modest […]

September 17, 2020

Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies and U.S. Cellular said they have successfully achieved the first extended range 5G NR millimeter Wave (mmWave) data call in the U.S. on a commercial network. The extended-range data call was completed in Janesville, Wisconsin, over a […]

September 9, 2020

Every major wireless carrier now has a new CEO. I’ve been a wireless analyst for the last 35 years, watching the industry and commenting on more companies than I can count. With that said, I am very excited right now […]

July 28, 2020

The same day that US Cellular revealed that it’s working with Nokia to add 5G millimeter-wave capabilities in the 24 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands to its network, the carrier also announced plans to expand its partnership with Ericsson, […]

July 17, 2020

A recent J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study found that higher uses of Wi-Fi calling improves user perception of wireless network performance. According to the study, the 42% of wireless customers that are using Wi-Fi calling indicated […]