Curious to know where US MNO buy their antennas and other site equipment from. Particularly antennas. It does not look like this information is very readily available Any ATT, VZW TMO and Dish folks that can shed some light ?
Kathrein is quite sought after given their quality. Amphenol was another one. Not sure if they are still around
Kathrein is owned by Ericsson, if I remember right.
with 5G and techs like massive mimo operators are moving towards integrated antennas from vendors - Nokia, ericsson etc.
Yes agreed about mMIMO and integrated antennas but passive antennas are still very relevant. I myself have worked closely with two MNOs but never saw Kathrein gain major footprint in US (at-least for the two operators) in-spite of their brand popularity mainly in Europe.
Nokia...Ericsson
and Samsung.
Yes Nokia, Ericcson and Samsung are providing antennas but only active (mMIMO) that are integrated with the radio. I am more keen to understand the passive antenna vendors.
At&t is mainly commscope with telcobuy as main vendor
I used to work for a US carrier Kmw, Katherine, commscope are the popular ones I think . Huawei products were banned so we couldn’t order their products