Newscan: Hurricane Ida takes out over half of all cell towers in its path in Louisiana

  Todd Schlekeway, president and CEO of NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, talks about NATE UNITE 2022, the organization’s annual tradeshow that is scheduled as an in-person event that will be conducted Feb. 21-24 in Las Vegas. Keynote speakers include FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and DISH Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen, and the event […]

Public-safety use of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band should be protected via a priority-and-preemption rules that allows sharing with critical-infrastructure entities, but exactly how this scheme is implemented remains a topic of considerable debate, according to dozens of comments to the FCC exploring the matter. Comments about the best use of 4.9 GHz (4940 MHz […]

A recently discovered attack campaign uses public cloud infrastructure to deliver variants of commodity remote access Trojans (RATs)–Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRATs–to target users’ data, researchers report. This campaign, detected in October, underscores how attackers are increasing their use of cloud technologies to achieve their goals without having to host their own infrastructure, report the Cisco […]

Mo Katibeh has left AT&T. That’s noteworthy considering he was in charge of expanding AT&T’s 5G and fiber networks. In a release, Katibeh said he is joining RingCentral as its new chief operating officer, reporting to the company’s CEO Vlad Shmunis. “I’m thrilled to join the RingCentral team as they continue to shape the future […]