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House Energy & Commerce Committee members unanimously advanced a bill that would reauthorize the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions for three years and provide $14.8 billion to transition the nation’s 911 center from legacy technologies to an IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) platform. Committee members yesterday voted 50-0 to send the bill—H.R. 3565, the “Spectrum […]

National Telecommunicators Week is being celebrated nationwide this week—and rightly so. Telecommunicators represent the hub of the emergency-response wheel, and this has been the case for a very long time. When 911 service first emerged in the United States, which occurred in 1968, it was common for a secretary in a sheriff’s office to answer […]

Visitors, exhibitors and sponsors poured in as the Expo Hall opened on Wednesday at IWCE 2023 in Las Vegas. More than 300 exhibitors are presenting the latest in telecommunications equipment and technology. The Expo Hall is open through today, Thursday, March 30.  

Key U.S. House members introduced bipartisan legislation that would provide $15 billion in federal funding to support 911 centers nationwide as they make the transition from legacy technology to an IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) platform. Standalone legislation that had not been assigned a bill number as of Friday night, the “Next Generation 9-1-1 Act of […]