Companies collaborate on emergency alert system

A plan submitted seven months ago that called for UK public safety to transition mission-critical voice communications from the Airwave TETRA system to the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN) in 2024 or 2025 was “overambitious” and is being revamped, according to the UK director heading the project. ESN Programme Director John Black did not specify […]

A few high-profile companies, including Ericsson, Huawei, Telefonica, Parallel Wireless and AT&T, confirmed to Light Reading that they intend to send executives to Barcelona, Spain, in June to attend the MWC trade show in person. But a large number of other companies, including Mavenir, Cisco, Intel, Rakuten, KPN, Deutsche Telekom, BT and Orange, said they […]

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Then it was, then it wasn’t. Whether the Biden administration will radically change the Trump era’s truculent China policy has been the million yuan question since it took over in January. But it now looks as if the course of Washington’s China policy may be more straight tracks ahead than all change. On January 14, […]