Newscan: CenturyLink, West Safety Comms agree to $575,000 fine over 911 outage

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Virginia State Police admit—after repeated denials—they used controversial facial-recognition app Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition Signing of Senate Bill 40 grants first-responder classification to Kansas 911 telecommunicators Lawmaker raises alarm bells over 5.9 GHz, C-Band spectrum ‘Time is not on our side’—Biden navigates cyberattacks with […]

California 911 centers could have IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) connectivity deployed throughout the state by the end of this year or early next year, according to an official helping lead the execution of the emergency-calling initiative. Budge Currier, 911 and emergency-communications branch manager for California, said the state is building its NG911 platform around the […]

Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensees operating on T-Band (470-512 MHz) spectrum last week submitted hundreds of license applications that could expand their  coverage footprint for the first time in nine years, and the long-awaited process was executed without significant conflicts, according to sources familiar with the situation. “Everything went well; there was no issue whatsoever,” Farokh Latif, […]

Hailed by vendors and operators alike as a key benefit of future 5G networks, one security specialist is now saying there is a problem with 5G network slicing that could make 5G mobile networks vulnerable to attack. Network slicing is a feature of standalone 5G networks that is set to enable an array of new […]