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By Allegra • January 3, 2020

Houston Chronicle: Houston company seeks to develop first 5G-enabled oil drilling site in Permian Basin

Telecommunication companies will spend the next 12 months rolling out 5G service for cell phone users across the United States while a Houston company seeks to become the first to provide the ultra high-speed technology to oil and gas industry customers in the Permian Basin, the nation’s largest and busiest oil field.

Headquartered in Houston’s Galleria district, Infrastructure Networks provides wireless data service to drilling rig operators, fracking crews and production sites in oil fields across the United States. The company provides those services over vast distances using the last iteration of mobile phone technology known as LTE, or Long Term Evolution, technology.

In its bid to develop what could become the first 5G-enabled drilling site, Infrastructure Networks has spent the last year installing equipment to make its private cell phone network 5G ready. Stan Hughey, the company’s chief technology officer, said the strategy is not to light up its entire network at once with the technology but rather to focus on areas with the highest levels of oil and gas activity.

“You’ve really got to look at islands where you want it and where you have concentration of assets,” Hughey said.

Click here to read the full article online here: http://bit.ly/36mUXAO. Or, to view this article featured on the cover of the Business Section in the Houston Chronicle, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, click here.

For media inquiries, please contact Allegra Taylor, Marketing and Media Manager at allegra.taylor@inetlte.com

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