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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

Managing cities like Las Vegas takes discipline and vision. The city proper has a population of more than 600,000 and the larger Las Vegas metropolitan area has a population of more than 2 million, there is much to manage in the city environs, from public transportation to parking and traffic as well as streetlights and […]

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AT&T customers explore use cases for edge computing

“Our entire edge strategy is based around what our customers actually need,” AT&T proclaimed in a recent blog post. The post was penned by Mo Katibeh, CMO of AT&T Business and champion of the company’s edge computing initiative. Katibeh told Light Reading recently that AT&T’s business customers have diverse needs, and that 5G edge compute is not […]

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Sonim CEO reiterates public-safety focus, says company ‘is not for sale’

Sonim Technologies is “not for sale” and intends to continue developing rugged public-safety broadband products, including high-powered user equipment (HPUE) that take advantage of 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum to extend the effective range of devices, according to new Sonim CEO Tom Wilkinson. “We are absolutely committed to public safety,” Wilkinson said during an interview […]

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Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover highlights versatility of smart-streetlight solution

Adair Grover, CEO and president of Wi-Fiber, outlines the capabilities of his company’s Intelli-Platform, a smart-streetlight device that supports 30-mile point-to-point links and a variety of broadband communications, as well as housing a host of sensors that can detect gunshots, air quality and temperature. Grover spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the Winter […]

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Edge-computing benefits for AI crystallizing

Interest in edge computing continues to build, as does confusion surrounding the architecture. The situation is similar when it comes to artificial intelligence. The prospect of moving AI to the edge might sound like a recipe for even more confusion. Performing artificial intelligence at the edge is often “just theory quoted in articles,” said Martin […]

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Inside Samsung’s 5G factory for AT&T

Among the businesses with the most to gain from 5G are manufacturing industries that require very high levels of precision in both their processes and their final products. This perfectly describes the semiconductor industry, where changes that are imperceptible to the human eye can have a huge impact on quality. “Semiconductor facilities are inherently complex […]

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Harris County: Greg Jurrens explains how FirstNet can address LMR backhaul challenges

Greg Jurrens, senior manager of radio services and public–safety technology for Harris County (Texas) Universal Services, describes how the county has used prioritized FirstNet broadband to provide backhaul links to deployable LMR units in challenging rural environments where commercial networks can get saturated, such as along the route to the funeral of former President George […]

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AT&T to finish 80% of FirstNet buildout in coming months, exec says

AT&T expects to complete 80% of the contracted buildout of the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) “in the coming months,” an AT&T executive said yesterday. AT&T Chief Operating Officer (COO) John Stankey made the statement during the company’s quarterly earning call with financial analysts while discussing company officials’ belief that AT&T will add more […]

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GAO report says FirstNet on track, calls for greater oversight, transparency

AT&T is meeting all contracted deployment and adoption goals for the FirstNet public-safety broadband network, but the FirstNet Authority could improve the system’s chances of success by improving oversight and transparency to stakeholders, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released yesterday. “The success of the network depends not only on AT&T’s contract execution […]

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Smart-city projects still driven by single-purpose IoT deployments

Smart city initiatives are underway across the country. But they face funding and technology challenges. Many cities want to upgrade infrastructure to improve resident experience, safety and to generate revenue. But modernization can be too costly without help from private companies. Only about 16% of cities can self-fund their infrastructure projects. That prompts some to join […]

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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

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AT&T customers explore use cases for edge computing

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Sonim CEO reiterates public-safety focus, says company ‘is not for sale’

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Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover highlights versatility of smart-streetlight solution

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Edge-computing benefits for AI crystallizing

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Inside Samsung’s 5G factory for AT&T

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Harris County: Greg Jurrens explains how FirstNet can address LMR backhaul challenges

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AT&T to finish 80% of FirstNet buildout in coming months, exec says

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GAO report says FirstNet on track, calls for greater oversight, transparency

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Smart-city projects still driven by single-purpose IoT deployments

Commentary

September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

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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Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up