Crowded city streets are likely to be the first deployment sites for Verizon's CBRS small cells. The carrier says the equipment will be smaller and less powerful than the small cells it has deployed in lower spectrum bands. Verizon also thinks the CBRS equipment will be easy to conceal.
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Commerce Department zaps ZTE
This morning U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross slapped ZTE with a
7-year denial
of export privileges, meaning the Chinese telecom company is banned from exporting to or from the United States. The ban was first discussed back in 2016, when the U.S. discovered that ZTE had been secretly exporting sensitive technologies to Iran and North Korea. At that time the Commerce Department threatened ZTE with a 7-year export ban and then tabled the idea when ZTE agreed to a $1.2 billion penalty as well as disciplinary action for the individuals at the company who were blamed. Last month, ZTE admitted through its lawyers that it had not disciplined all the individuals. Instead, the workers received bonuses during the year that they allegedly helped sell technology to North Korea and Iran.
The Commerce Department
says
now the export sanctions will go into effect, and will last until 2025. ZTE's
shares
were hit hard by the news, but not as hard as shares of companies that sell to ZTE. Shares of Acacia were down more than 35% and shares of Oclaro were down more than 10% this morning. Lumentum and Finisar were also down on the news, but the selloffs were less severe.
Rogers Communications announced a multi-year network deal with Ericsson that will see the Canadian carrier trialling 5G technology in Toronto and Ottawa, and working with Ericsson to upgrade its LTE network with 5G-ready technologies, including 4x4 MIMO, 4-carrier aggregation, and 256 quadrature amplitude modulation. Rogers said it is also testing quad-band license-assisted access on gigabit LTE.
Cox doubles down on Wi-Fi
Cox Communications says its 1 Gbps managed Wi-Fi service is now available to all its business customers in the Northeast, and will soon be available across the company's nationwide footprint. Cox has partnered with Cisco, Netgear and Arris for Wi-Fi access points and gateways. Its home Wi-Fi solution, branded Panoramic Wi-Fi, leverages mesh networking with the goal of delivering a consistent Wi-Fi experience throughout the home.
