Newscan: San Diego Gas & Electric starts private LTE build using CBRS spectrum

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Energy consumption should be a decent proxy for telco operating cost trends. Before the war in Ukraine, it accounted for only about 5% of total expenses at an average telco, which spends far more on its staff (representing about a quarter of costs). But even the most economically phrased text message needs electricity to leap […]

The federal government has once again signaled that our traditional approach to cybersecurity, one predicated solely on prevention and perimeter defenses, is failing us. In the past two years alone, 76% of organizations were attacked by ransomware, and 66% experienced at least one software supply chain attack. Now, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the […]

Xcom – a relatively low-profile startup fronted by the son of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs – has mostly been touting its short-range virtual reality technology in recent months. But the company’s CEO, Paul Jacobs, appeared during Globalstar’s recent investor day to make a compelling prediction: “Paul asserts his company can make 10 MHz of spectrum look like […]