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AT&T's current Discovery District headquarters in downtown Dallas. The company is relocating its HQ to a 54-acre site in Plano. [Photo: AT&T]
AT&T To Spend $250B Over Next 5 Years in U.S. Connectivity Push
by Sandra Engelland | Mar 10, 2026
The investment focuses on three strategic areas: deploying always-on connectivity, investing in the workforce, and innovating to secure and advance America's connected economy. The company said that the current tax and regulatory environment are the most conducive to such investment in decades.
by Sandra Engelland |
Jan 28, 2026
The stratosphere-based system is designed to support constant monitoring of shipping lanes, coastal regions, and remote ocean areas from above the weather and beyond the reach of conventional networks.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 18, 2024
Plano-based Award Solutions, a provider of training and consulting services in advanced wireless and network technologies, has been acquired by Dublin, Ireland-based professional services company Accenture.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Award Solutions, founded in 1997, has employees in Las Cruces, New Mexico; Branson, Missouri; San Diego, California; and Bangalore, India....
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by David Seeley |
Aug 20, 2024
"This is precisely the type of partnership we imagined for our innovation ecosystem," Richardson City Manager Don Magner said of the new lab, which is affiliated with UT Dallas' Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science under the leadership of AT&T and Verizon.
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Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO of Mavenir [Photo: Mavenir]
Mavenir Gets Up to $75M Investment From ‘Existing Investor’
by David Seeley | May 30, 2024
After raising $850 million between 2021 and 2023—including a $500 million minority equity investment from Koch Strategic Platforms—Richardson-based Mavenir continues to drive toward its goal of "end-to-end 5G transformation."
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by David Seeley |
Jan 19, 2024
Launched in 2020 by former CyrusOne CEO Gary “Wojo” Wojtaszek, RecNation is leveraging the advent of new 5G and Small Cell technologies to spring up wireless towers across its six-states-and-growing portfolio.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 1, 2023
The 5G Innovation Sessions will showcase new product innovation and demonstrations from across industries. The free event will feature panel discussions and presentations by industry executives. Here's what will be covered, and how you can register.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 27, 2023
The private LTE solution package, CommunityConnect, is a program for digital equity that helps communities leverage available funding and identify a clear path to closing the digital divide, Baicells said.
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Sky Sapience HoverMast tethered hovering drone. [Photo: Sky Sapience]
COMSovereign Sells Sky Sapience Tethered Drone Unit for $1.8M Cash
by Lance Murray | Dec 22, 2022
COMSovereign Holding Corp., the Dallas-based developer of 4G LTE Advanced and 5G communication systems and solutions, is selling its Israel-based Sky Sapience tethered drone unit to Titan Innovations for $1.8 million. The deal will allow COMSovereign to refocus efforts on its 4G LTE and 5G wireless connectivity solutions, the company said.
"Sky Sapience's proprietary fiber optic tether technology makes it an ideal platform for military, borders, and civilian applications," said Titan Innovations CEO Yahav Regev.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 7, 2022
Ericsson said the trial was conducted over a live Citizen's Broadband Radio Service network at its North America HQ in Plano. Now, with the ability to get 5G gigabit speeds indoors along with advanced capabilities, Ericsson says enterprises can feel confident in deploying Private 5G networks.
"We're excited to continue pushing the envelope of what is possible with 5G," Ericsson's Paul Challoner said.
"We're excited to continue pushing the envelope of what is possible with 5G," Ericsson's Paul Challoner said.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 30, 2022
ExteNet Systems is relocating from the Chicago area to a new 37,000-square-foot space at the Frisco Station development. The company—which specializes in providing secure 5G and fiber-neutral host communications infrastructure—has worked on projects for the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium, the Empire State Building, and Dallas’ Bank of America Plaza.
It's an "opportunity to reimagine our future," says Richard Coyle, ExteNet's president and CEO.
It's an "opportunity to reimagine our future," says Richard Coyle, ExteNet's president and CEO.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 25, 2022
NTT Data is expanding its Plano presence with the opening of a new North American Innovation Center, where it will focus on customer-facing tech including areas like 5G, smart city planning, and “digital humans”—virtual models of the human body for medical research.
The new center will coordinate with five other NTT Data innovation centers in Japan, Italy, Germany, China, and India.
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Ericsson Launches Global Utilities Innovation Center in Plano
by David Seeley | May 4, 2022
From cybersecurity to 4G and 5G cellular reliability, there's a need for a more secure and flexible modernized power grid.
Ericsson's new Global Utilities Innovation Center at its North American HQ in Plano will be a secure experience center and testing lab to enable utilities and manufacturers to explore solutions to challenges.
Ericsson's new Global Utilities Innovation Center at its North American HQ in Plano will be a secure experience center and testing lab to enable utilities and manufacturers to explore solutions to challenges.
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by Dave Moore |
Apr 13, 2022
Most anyone who has been commuting to work over the past two years has likely noticed a decrease in traffic.
Brookings Institution noted that metro traffic congestion was cut in half after COVID-19 hit in 2020, attributing it largely to employees working virtually from home, and more flexible work schedules (though government stay-at-home orders figured prominently as well)....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 11, 2022
InfoVision says it plans to hire 2,000 additional employees in India by next year, in addition to opening a 300-person development center in Guadalajara, Mexico.
"We believe that our investments in digital will help clients accelerate innovation and reimagine their businesses," Co-Founder and President Sean Yalamanchi said, citing the need to be "future proof at the convergence of technologies."
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 30, 2022
Finnish Ambassador to the U.S. Mikko Hautala and a delegation of business leaders is touring the Texas Triangle to talk economic cooperation and new technologies.
“For us, the key message to Finnish companies and travelers is that there's also the U.S. South, and Texas is the center of that. You have a bigger GDP than Brazil," Hautala told Dallas Innovates.
“For us, the key message to Finnish companies and travelers is that there's also the U.S. South, and Texas is the center of that. You have a bigger GDP than Brazil," Hautala told Dallas Innovates.
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