Newscan: Cell-phone carriers are fighting a plan to make it easier to find 911 callers

Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) this week asked the FCC to consider measures to help private land-mobile-radio (PLMR) operators with T-Band spectrum (470-512 MHz) systems subject to “harmful interference” from television broadcasters that were repacked in the band seven years ago. EWA President and CEO Robin Cohen requested the FCC established a task force to consider […]

About 3.4 million electric customers were without power in Florida on Thursday morning after Hurricane Milton hit the state’s western shore on its way toward the Atlantic Ocean, according to PowerOutage.us. Milton, a Category 5 hurricane that slowed to a Category 3 by the time it made landfall, comes about two weeks after Hurricane Helene caused nearly […]

With global network capex in full retreat, private networks have become one of mobile’s few growth hotspots. Research firm SNS Telecom & IT says the sector is on track for annual growth of 20% and likely total spending of $6 billion by end-2027. Nearly 60% of this investment – worth around $3.5 billion over the […]

Don’t call it a comeback. Satellite service provider Iridium Communications has been here before. “We want to be the glue for the D2D network around the world,” Brian Aziz, Iridium’s VP of global sales, told Light Reading at MWC Las Vegas. “You can have multiple options, but you’ll always have our reliability component,” added Tim […]