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24 APRIL-JUNE 2024

AT&T Extends 'Internet Air' to Businesses

AT&T is introducing AT&T Internet applications, it helps you stay AT&T Internet Air for Business solves
Air for Business, a new fixed wireless connected to customers, suppliers multiple business challenges. It
service for small, mid-size and large and employees. can help you establish a primary
businesses, powered by America's internet connection where fiber is not
most reliable 5G network. In just minutes, businesses can easily available, in remote locations, or when
temporary access is needed. It can
also serve as a supplemental internet
connection to distribute workload
or as an alternate connection if
primary wired network connection
is interrupted. It's available now
to qualified business addresses
nationwide.

Customers can choose from two
plans – each at a low monthly rate.

• AT&T Internet Air for Business
Standard is $60 plus fees.
• AT&T Internet Air for Business
Premium is $100 plus fees and
includes a higher level of priority for
the first 250GB of data used in each
billing period - a benefit when the
This new, flexible solution is both easy set up AT&T Internet Air for Business network is busy.
to set up and reliable. and be up and running. It's plug-and- • Plus, when you have an eligible AT&T
play with no drilling or coordinating Business wireless plan, you can get
Whether you're expanding business with building management. You don't internet for as low as $30/month,
locations, building network diversity, need a technician to install it. plus fees.
or supporting business critical

Nokia Breaks the Mould with mmWave for FWA

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is an Like all technologies, FWA comes with As FWA users consume around
attractive play for many operators, its challenges. In a recent operator 20 times more data than mobile
and Nokia believes its potential can study, Nokia found that mid-band uses, managing capacity is a key
be further enhanced with the arrival FWA deployments are leaving 19 per consideration in FWA deployments,
of 5G FWA solutions using higher cent of subscribers with low signal to ensure neither FWA nor mobile
millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. levels, resulting in wasted network services are compromised, and
capacity. Around 29 per cent of to protect an operator’s valuable
5G mid-band FWA already supports capacity in such cases could have investment in spectrum. Conserving
a number of different deployment been restored to the operator just radio resources from the start is far
scenarios. Fixed broadband operators by having the CPE device correctly more efficient than later investments
are using it to complement fiber positioned, either indoors or using to upgrade the network or change
deployments, plugging coverage an outdoors device, for optimal devices to regain that lost capacity.
gaps and quickly building out performance. Using outdoor antennas
their footprint to increase market rather than indoor CPE at the cell Employing 5G mmWave FWA at
share. Mobile operators are taking edge could achieve a 62 per cent and above 24 GHz, with its resulting
advantage of its fast time-to-market gain in network capacity, says the benefits in capacity and performance,
and low start-up costs to compete company. is becoming increasingly attractive for
with fixed-fiber services. operators, says Nokia.

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