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Miami-Dade awards $165 million contract to Motorola Solutions outside procurement process

Members of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners yesterday voted unanimously to approve a no-bid, $165 million contract to Motorola Solutions for P25 radios and other communications gear, despite concerns about the process and warnings from L3Harris officials that some device features may not work on the police network. Under the contract, Miami-Dade County will […]

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FCC clears SpaceX to connect Starlink to boats, planes, other moving vehicles

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service could soon be on the move. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given SpaceX the green light for its Starlink satellite broadband platform to connect to boats, planes, trucks, RVs and other types of moving vehicles, effectively forging a new service path for Starlink. Today the service uses a network […]

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Nobody has the foggiest about the edge

Cisco once tried to popularize fog computing as an alternative to the edge. If you’ve never heard of it, you are not alone. For a short period, fog computing gave rise to a new industry group called the OpenFog Consortium (because the industry needed another group with open prefixing its name), but this was eventually […]

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AST SpaceMobile gets OK from FCC to test sat-to-phone tech with AT&T in U.S.

AST SpaceMobile—a LEO satellite company that plans to deliver broadband cellular service directly to unmodified wireless devices—has received an experimental license from the FCC to conduct tests this year in preparation for launches that are expected to result in continuous global coverage by the end of 2025, a company official said. Scott Wisniewski, chief strategy […]

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China’s PLA wants to be able to take out Starlink

Chinese military researchers have urged the PLA to develop the capability to take down the Starlink global satellite network. In a paper published last month, PLA scientists say the LEO network’s capabilities, including its huge global footprint, ubiquitous broadband and low latency pose a military threat to China, SCMP.com reported. “A combination of soft and hard […]

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Dubai to use satellite IoT terminals for utility industry

Dubai’s Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is collaborating with Infra X, the IT and telecommunications arm of Digital DEWA, and its British technical partner Wyld to establish IoT satellite terminals to help streamline operations and maintenance efforts. The project comes under DEWA’s Space-D programme and will connect DEWA’s water and electricity assets to nano-satellites to […]

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Restrictions on Chinese imports hurting equipment vendors working in India

Vendors have requested a relaxation on imports from China so that domestic telecom operators can roll out upgraded networks faster. With 5G deployment around the corner, telecom equipment vendors are finding themselves in a catch-22 situation. Since the Indo-Sino clash on the Galwan border in 2020, cross-border trade with China has been severely restricted. Multinational […]

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T-Mobile’s CEO explains the company’s new private 5G strategy

T-Mobile on Monday took the wraps off its new private wireless networking offerings, and the company’s CEO spoke about it at length during an investor event. “CIOs everywhere are interested in this topic right now,” T-Mobile’s Mike Sievert said Monday at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference. “And they’re interested in it for a reason. […]

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The private-wireless networking opportunity shouldn’t stay too private

Everyone is excited about the market for private wireless networking. And that’s no surprise: It affords all the companies that cut their teeth building big, public 4G and 5G networks the chance to leverage that work into the enterprise space – where margins might be much more attractive. Moreover, it could ultimately grow into a […]

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5G proponents fret over Biden’s fiber fancy

The US government on Friday released some guidelines on how US states should dole out $42.5 billion for broadband services in rural areas. “Thanks to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Americans across the country will no longer be held back by a lack of high-speed Internet access,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo declared in a statement. However, those […]

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Miami-Dade awards $165 million contract to Motorola Solutions outside procurement process

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FCC clears SpaceX to connect Starlink to boats, planes, other moving vehicles

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Nobody has the foggiest about the edge

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AST SpaceMobile gets OK from FCC to test sat-to-phone tech with AT&T in U.S.

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China’s PLA wants to be able to take out Starlink

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Dubai to use satellite IoT terminals for utility industry

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Restrictions on Chinese imports hurting equipment vendors working in India

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T-Mobile’s CEO explains the company’s new private 5G strategy

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The private-wireless networking opportunity shouldn’t stay too private

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5G proponents fret over Biden’s fiber fancy

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