Newscan: More than half of U.S. adults live in ‘cell-phone-only’ households

U.S. House members this week approved a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill that includes $12 billion in funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments, but the spending proposal is not expected to be considered seriously by the Senate, according to numerous Beltway sources and media reports. On Wednesday, House members approved the massive infrastructure package—knowns as H.R. […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Australia spending almost $1 billion on cyberdefense as China tensions rise California begins enforcing digital privacy law, despite calls for delay House sends massive infrastructure bill to the Senate, where it has no path forward FCC’s approach to small cells strips municipalities of rights, claim NATOA panelists LAPD […]

The federal government’s commercialization of CBRS spectrum is creating private network opportunities for a number of industries, but for the utility industry the FCC’s move to auction this midband spectrum is not entirely good news. That’s because many utilities are already using this spectrum. Utilities have been building their own communications networks for decades to […]

Hampered in part by economic slowdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity in both the public-safety and business-industrial sectors this year is on pace to set all-time low marks, according to data in the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. Through July 1, the FCC has received 6,092 LMR license applications—1,378 […]