Datron names new president

Southern Linc—the wireless-communications carrier that is subsidiary of the Southern Company electric utility—is nearing completion of its internal migration to LTE-only mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) and is preparing to implement the LMR-LTE interoperability solution of new partner Catalyst Communications throughout its network. Ritesh Desai, product engineering manager for Southern Linc, said that Southern Company workers use the […]

The nation’s biggest wireless network operators told the FCC earlier this month that they are successfully securing Z-axis location data for 911 calls. That’s critical because the information can be combined with existing X- and Y-axis data in order to let emergency responders know exactly which floor a 911 caller in a skyscraper is located, […]

The fiercely fought battle in California among self-driving tech companies has taken a new twist with the granting of a permit to Korean firm Vueron. The permit, issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, is the first in the state to sanction the testing of autonomous vehicles (AVs) using one Lidar sensor only. Generally, the […]

AT&T and Verizon have agreed to curtail their 5G networks around select airports for another year, until July 2023, under a new agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “The wireless companies offered Friday to continue with some level of voluntary mitigations for another year,” the FAA wrote in a release. The agency did not provide […]