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Vodafone partnership to boost vehicle-to-everything tech

Vodafone’s new partnership with California’s Topcon Positioning Group could bring major benefits to road safety. The pair is working together to develop a new mass-market positioning system that can locate IoT devices, machinery and vehicles with more accuracy than is currently provided by individual global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). According to Vodafone, this will allow vehicles, […]

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How AT&T’s network chief hopes to cut a $1.6 billion electricity bill

SEATTLE – AT&T’s Chris Sambar is putting the operator’s growing 5G network to sleep at night – a move he said will help reduce the operator’s annual $1.6 billion network electricity bill. “We’re constantly trying to reduce that,” Sambar said of AT&T’s power needs. “I think about that a lot.” Speaking here at the Mobile […]

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FirstNet Authority initiates CEO search, spectrum-license renewal process

As expected, the FirstNet Authority recently took its first steps toward hiring a new CEO to lead the organization and to secure an FCC license renewal to the 700 MHz Band 14 airwaves that serve as the spectral foundation to the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T. In seeking a successor […]

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How and when you might connect your smartphone to a satellite

Today’s iPhones and Androids cannot communicate directly with satellites in space. Instead, they must connect to nearby cell towers on the ground. But that may soon change. A large range of companies – from tiny startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth – are racing each other to connect regular smartphones directly to […]

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Necessity indeed is the mother of invention

An adage regarding the stock market goes something like this: over any 20-year period, the market delivers a return on investment of about 10 percent, but every 20-year period—regardless of when it begins or when it ends—contains peaks and valleys that are driven by market conditions that change often, and often substantially. This adage just […]

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2.5 GHz spectrum auction ends with just $428 million in bids

The FCC’s latest auction of midband spectrum ended after more than 70 rounds of bidding. However, the event generated winning bids of $428 million, an amount far below most analysts’ expectations. T-Mobile is expected to walk away with the bulk of the licenses up for grabs in the auction. However, the FCC has not yet […]

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Did Elon Musk just upstage Tim Cook’s big iPhone 14 surprise?

The world’s richest human being – Elon Musk, worth an estimated $265 billion – yesterday said he plans to start launching new satellites next year that can connect directly to existing mobile phones on Earth. Separately, the world’s most valuable company – Apple, with a market cap of $2.7 trillion – is widely expected to introduce a new iPhone next month that can […]

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Europe working on cross-border 5G for driverless vehicles

There are an increasing number of European Union projects working on making 5G feasible to operate connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) across international and national borders. However, standardized connectivity and roaming charges remain as being among the greatest potential challenges in some markets. These issues could present themselves as being obstacles to the proper, efficient […]

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The next wave of wireless security worries: API-driven IoT devices

LAS VEGAS – Wireless carriers may be the next cast of characters to learn the hard way about the security risks created by IoT devices. This warning came in a recent briefing at the Black Hat information-security conference here by Altaf Shaik, a senior security researcher at Technische Universität Berlin. “There is increased threat when it comes to 5G, […]

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From Ligado to Verizon to Dish, spectrum conflicts continue brewing

The FCC and other US government agencies are working feverishly to coordinate their spectrum agendas in the wake of a very public battle between the wireless industry and the airline industry over 5G. But it’s clear the efforts haven’t stopped spectrum disagreements. The latest dustup involves ongoing concerns that Ligado Networks’ planned wireless network will […]

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Vodafone partnership to boost vehicle-to-everything tech

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How AT&T’s network chief hopes to cut a $1.6 billion electricity bill

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FirstNet Authority initiates CEO search, spectrum-license renewal process

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How and when you might connect your smartphone to a satellite

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Necessity indeed is the mother of invention

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2.5 GHz spectrum auction ends with just $428 million in bids

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Did Elon Musk just upstage Tim Cook’s big iPhone 14 surprise?

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Europe working on cross-border 5G for driverless vehicles

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The next wave of wireless security worries: API-driven IoT devices

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From Ligado to Verizon to Dish, spectrum conflicts continue brewing

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Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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