FCC meeting to focus on critical infrastructure protection

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An oft-repeated phrase in the wireless industry is that 80% of all smartphone usage happens indoors. It’s difficult to track down the source of that statistic, but many of the companies operating in the indoor wireless industry take it to heart. “Carriers still spend a tremendous amount of capex on indoor and outdoor DAS [distributed […]

Last winter, three storms swept across Texas, bringing the state’s electrical grid to a standstill. Between Feb. 10 and 20, the blackouts and energy failures led to the deaths of more than 200 people, with some estimates as high as 700.  Over the course of the two-week crisis, the Texas grid operator, Electric Reliability Council of Texas […]

[Editor’s note: The following is a statement from Hytera US regarding an IWCE’s Urgent Communications article posted on Nov. 12 about the enactment of the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, which references an FCC list of China-based firms. After Hytera officials expressed their objections about the story’s accuracy, IWCE’s Urgent Communications removed the article from […]