Newscan: Two-stage 911 procedure may have impacted police response to the Parkland shooting

A London hospital plans to test medical drone delivery service for on-demand transportation of urgent pathology items including blood samples. Guy’s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust teamed with health care logistics company Apian and drone delivery company Wing to offer on-demand drone delivery, a service the hospital said could pave the way for delivery […]

T-Mobile yesterday announced T-Priority, an offering designed to prioritize first-responder communications by leveraging the carrier’s 5G standalone core and network slicing technology, and the City of New York as a significant new “anchor” user of the service. T-Mobile Business Group President Callie Field compared the T-Priority service to the priority and preemption many public-safety users […]

AT&T reached a $13 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to resolve the agency’s investigation into a January 2023 third-party breach that exposed data of 8.9 million customers. The telecom operator committed to strengthening its data governance practices and supply chain security as part of the settlement, the FCC said. AT&T is required to […]

SoftBank Corp’s new partnership with Intelsat is not the first 5G-satellite collaboration, but it seems to be the first to take a global approach. The partners want to build a hybrid solution that would allow a device to stay connected via a mobile or satellite network anywhere in the world through a single device and a single […]