C4i looks to the future after acquisition

In November, Ukraine’s president revealed that the country’s IT defenses fended off more than 1,300 Russian cyberattacks, including attacks on satellite communications infrastructure. The onslaught of cyberattacks highlights one of the shifts in advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks seen in the past year: In 2022, geopolitical tensions ratcheted up, and along with them, cyber operations […]

Last month, the FirstNet Authority named John Stevens as this year’s recipient of the Harlin R. McEwen Public Safety Broadband Communications Award recognizing an individual “who has displayed remarkable leadership or made significant contributions in the field of public-safety broadband communications.” As New Hampshire’s longtime statewide interoperability coordinator, Stevens (pictured above, right, with FirstNet Authority […]

Energy consumption should be a decent proxy for telco operating cost trends. Before the war in Ukraine, it accounted for only about 5% of total expenses at an average telco, which spends far more on its staff (representing about a quarter of costs). But even the most economically phrased text message needs electricity to leap […]

Xcom – a relatively low-profile startup fronted by the son of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs – has mostly been touting its short-range virtual reality technology in recent months. But the company’s CEO, Paul Jacobs, appeared during Globalstar’s recent investor day to make a compelling prediction: “Paul asserts his company can make 10 MHz of spectrum look like […]