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FirstNet Authority vows to ‘continue to hold AT&T accountable’ in aftermath of outage

FirstNet Authority officials provided some additional insight into the circumstances surrounding the Feb. 22 outage suffered by contractor AT&T—although no new information about the cause—and proclaimed that the carrier giant would be held “accountable.” Renee Gordon, vice chair of the FirstNet Authority board, outlined the FirstNet Authority’s response to the AT&T outage and noted that […]

LMR remains most reliable technology for public-safety communications

From the early beginnings of the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) concept, the network was considered supplemental to existing land-mobile-radio (LMR) communications systems. Certainly, it could be an important supplement to existing mission-critical systems by providing a variety of additional information to first responders, e.g. blueprints of a building for firefighters. The network was also […]

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Verizon, T-Mobile, Nokia get noisy on network slicing and net neutrality

Network slicing arose as a major topic at this year’s big MWC Barcelona confab. Companies ranging from Ericsson to Telefonica to Nokia promised to create slices of their network that sport “enhanced performance characteristics.” However, many of those same companies are warning that a renewed push toward net neutrality in the US could stymie such […]

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UK Home Office hopes to name key ESN vendor in August, official says

A new user-services vendor to replace Motorola Solutions on the Emergency Services Network (ESN) public-safety broadband initiative could be under contract in August, according to a UK Home Office official who declined to provide a timeline for the broader ESN network, which is supposed to replace the Airwave TETRA system. Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme […]

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EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about ‘ability to continue as a going concern’

The financial situation at EchoStar/Dish Network looks dim, as the newly combined entity issued an ominous warning via this SEC filing that raises “substantial doubt” that the company can continue as a going concern. EchoStar and Dish merged last year, combining Dish’s satellite, streaming, retail wireless business and emerging 5G network with EchoStar’s satellite-focused business. The move was […]

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Would utilities have interest in T-Mobile’s 800MHz auction?

T-Mobile officials said the company will finish auctioning a chunk of nationwide 800MHz spectrum sometime this fall. But there may not be much demand for that kind of spectrum. “I have a hard time seeing who else would necessarily step up,” Brian Goemmer, with spectrum-tracking company Spektrum Metrics, told Light Reading. Other industry executives, who […]

Audio

Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard

Lt. Col. Marcos Rogers of the Mississippi Army National Guard joins Verizon Frontline’s Mark Paff (senior director, business continuity and event management) and Earl Struble, associate director for the Crisis Response Team-South Region) to discuss the recent PATRIOT 24 exercise that is designed to simulate the rapid-recovery efforts that need to be executed during […]

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CommScope won’t ‘sell assets on the cheap’

CommScope is continuing to evaluate alternatives, including asset sales, to help reduce the company’s $9 billion debt load. But execs said divesture discussions have yet to bear fruit, and stressed that CommScope won’t resort to a fire sale. “We do not intend to sell assets on the cheap,” CommScope EVP and CFO Kyle Lorentzen said […]

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IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds

IoT connectivity issues are causing significant financial losses and operational delays, a report from rSIM has found. According to the report’s findings, almost half of businesses (43%) said connectivity problems have caused “life-affecting changes” to either staff or customers, while a quarter said they have been hacked due to connectivity issues. Of the U.K. businesses […]

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At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities

MWC24 – BARCELONA – The wireless industry’s space race increasingly looks like a two-company contest between AT&T, partnering with AST SpaceMobile, and T-Mobile, linked up with SpaceX’s Starlink. The latter effort has gotten much more attention, thanks to Starlink’s enormous constellation of satellites that now includes direct-to-cell versions and also to Elon Musk’s outsized, no-inner-monologue presence on X. During MWC, Musk posted onto X […]

News

FirstNet Authority vows to ‘continue to hold AT&T accountable’ in aftermath of outage

LMR remains most reliable technology for public-safety communications

Partner content

Verizon, T-Mobile, Nokia get noisy on network slicing and net neutrality

News

UK Home Office hopes to name key ESN vendor in August, official says

Partner content

EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about ‘ability to continue as a going concern’

Partner content

Would utilities have interest in T-Mobile’s 800MHz auction?

Audio

Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard

Partner content

CommScope won’t ‘sell assets on the cheap’

Partner content

IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds

Partner content

At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities

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?

Video

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

Events

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up