Newscan: U.S. Senate panel to hold hearing on FCC nominee Simington after Trump’s urging

FirstNet subscribers now can access new technological capabilities that are designed to improve terrestrial LTE coverage, locate first responders, let agencies address coverage gaps quicker during incidents and enable interoperability between FirstNet PTT and LMR users, FirstNet contractor AT&T announced. Key FirstNet innovations unveiled yesterday as being available for public-safety use are: MegaRange, the FirstNet […]

T-Mobile US signed new five-year, “multi-billion-dollar agreements” with both Ericsson and Nokia for the further expansion of its 5G network. The self-styled “uncarrier” has been working with the two European vendors on 5G for some time, also signing $3.5 billion agreements with each of them in 2018. T-Mobile said last year that it will use […]

Telecommunications giant Verizon announced that it is working to create a broad industry coalition that would address the longstanding public-safety communications issue of “true interoperability” between first-responder entities, according to a Verizon executive. Andres Irlando—a Verizon senior vice president and president of the carrier’s Public Sector and Verizon Connect unit—said the company “has been working […]

Officials in the Biden administration are beginning to offer hints about how they might move forward on a variety of hot topics, including Huawei and China, social media oversight and 5G. It’s still early days of course. And whatever officials say at the beginning of President Biden’s administration may have little bearing on what actually […]