Trees and steeples doing double duty

The US government on Friday released some guidelines on how US states should dole out $42.5 billion for broadband services in rural areas. “Thanks to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Americans across the country will no longer be held back by a lack of high-speed Internet access,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo declared in a statement. However, those […]

Startup Artemis Networks is back. The company is still pushing its pCell technology with CEO Steve Perlman at the helm. It is also touting a distribution partnership with Federated Wireless, a real-world deployment at the SAP Center sports stadium in San Jose and high-profile support from former Apple CEO John Sculley and financial analyst Craig […]

Wireless emergency calls from AT&T customers will be routed to 911 centers based the caller’s location—not the location of the cell tower used to make the call—throughout the nation by the end of June, AT&T announced yesterday. AT&T claims it is the first carrier to launch location-based routing, thanks to a new “Locate Before Route” […]

FirstNet Authority board members this week voted to make a multimillion-dollar investment that is designed to extend the coverage of FirstNet—the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T—inside public-safety buildings and other structures. FirstNet Authority Chair Stephen Benjamin described the in-building resolution as an “exciting investment,” and the measure was approved unanimously during […]