Newscan: Activists are pressuring lawmakers to stop Amazon Ring’s police-surveillance partnerships

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 […]

The FCC has banned purchases of Huawei and ZTE equipment and many of the US rural wireless network operators affected by the move are incensed. “As a result, rural carriers who have deployed Huawei or ZTE equipment or services in their networks will now lack the ability to support their critical networks that are serving […]

Cloud systems have entered the realm of AI and machine learning, changing the nature of embedded IoT development, which already required an ample mix of skill sets. As AI work moves to the edge in many Internet of Things deployments, this trend could accelerate, setting the stage for greater development in platform diversity. Still, all […]