Newscan: 911 Grant Program now accepting applications to upgrade nation’s call centers
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Minnesota sheriff’s office using drones to save lives
The operational benefits of deploying public-safety tech innovations
College campuses consider pulling emergency blue-light phones
AT&T does flip flop on fixed 5G, now sees it ‘unequivocally’ as a landline-broadband replacement
AT&T plans to test 5G with AirGig, seeks AirGig manufacturers
Samsung produces 1-terabyte embedded memory for smartphones
Clock ticking on Broward County’s plans for new emergency-communications system this year
C Spire forms consortium to bridge digital gap in rural areas
If convicted, Huawei faces bigger problems than fines
Senate Democrats seek answers on shutdown impact on cybersecurity
Hackers are passing around a megaleak of 2.2 billion records
Apple apologizes for FaceTime eavesdropping bug, says update coming next week
Google shuts down iPhone data-gathering app: ‘This was a mistake, and we apologize’
Apple pulls the plug on Facebook’s internal IoS apps
Facebook slammed over covert app that pays teenagers for data
U.S. appeals court, House panel to take up net neutrality
Sprint touts network investments as it reports $141 million loss
Google takes its first steps toward killing the URL
U.S. regains an elected leadership position at the ITU after a 25-year hiatus
Briefing Room
News announcements from our industry
911 Grant Program now accepting applications to upgrade nation’s call centers
Statement from new FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks about being sworn in
New FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announces staff
FCC announces 24 GHz auction to begin on March 14
FirstNet blog: Mission-critical features move forward during latest 3GPP standards meetings
FirstNet video: Push to talk on FirstNet
FirstNet blog: FirstNet earns its wings at Indiana airshow
AT&T: AirGig closer to initial commercial deployment