Newscan: FEMA administrator warns of cellphone vulnerabilities during disasters, calls for FM-radio integration

When the president of the world’s biggest carmaker talks, people listen. So, when Toyota President Akio Toyoda said, in September of last year, that bans on ICE cars within 10 to 15 years  will be “rather difficult to achieve” because EVs “are just going to take longer than the media would like us to believe,” […]

President Biden’s nominee for FCC Commissioner Gigi Sohn will is expected to sit through a third hearing in the US Senate sometime in the coming weeks. That means that, in addition to being on track to become the first openly LGBTQ+ Commissioner for the FCC, Sohn will also make history as the first person to endure three […]

Hytera Communications claims it has not made a court-ordered royalty payment of $49 million to Motorola Solutions because the China-based LMR manufacturer’s parent company does not have access to the assets of its subsidiaries around the world, according to a recent filing in a federal district court. Hytera Communications Corp. (HCC) made the filing earlier […]

Todd Schlekeway, executive director of NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, discusses many of NATE’s planned activities for 2023, including a legislative visit to Capitol Hill in May, safety/training initiatives, and a broader release of the Vertical Freedom documentary that focuses on the lives of tower climbers in the communication arena.