Posts Tagged ‘2025’

Utilities collectively are under increasing pressure to act to ensure their critical infrastructure is ready to meet future grid modernization, resilience, security, and clean energy requirements. Over the next 5-7 years, it’s projected that utilities will see six times growth in data usage, driven by an increase in network capacity, performance, and new applications.

FCC commissioners last week approved proposed rules that would permit broadband-wireless operation on 900 MHz spectrum—much of which is licensed to Anterix—that supported only land-mobile-radio (LMR) communications less than six years ago.

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) has taken a licence with specialist US private network provider Anterix to use the local 900 MHz band for private LTE across its service areas in Texas. The agreement builds on its purchase of 900 MHz licenses from Anterix in April 2023, and will see the non-profit public utility expand its private LTE coverage to another 34 counties in the state; its network already covers 68 with the previous Anterix licences.

Texas fascinates with its famous hubris, its huge distances, its undeniable vigor, its wealth, and its sense of always being on some kind of cutting-edge.

This gives special impact to the announcement that the Lower Colorado River Authority is purchasing additional 900-megahertz wireless broadband licenses from Anterix, boosting its ability to support future growth in Texas.