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U.S. government warns on 5G network-slicing security

The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published a document that provides a detailed look at network slicing and the security threats the technology may face in the future. “This guidance – created by the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), a public-private cross-sector working group led by the […]

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Progress on Release 18 features continues at June 3GPP Plenary meetings; Release 19 remains on track

The 3GPP Plenary meetings took place June 12-16, 2023, in Taipei, Taiwan. The Technical Specification Group (TSG) reports below highlight solid progress on Release 18 (R18) features of interest for public safety, including the completion of the architecture (stage 2) and the steady development on the protocol work (stage 3). The Plenary meetings also included […]

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Rising insurance costs could force apartment sales, threaten new development

As rents have moderated, apartment owners have been hit with many cost increases over the last year. Property taxes have gone up. Utility and labor costs have jumped. And that doesn’t take into account the potential millions of extra dollars needed to pay debt service for floating-rate loans. Add on insurance costs that have jumped […]

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Pioneer, Indigo tap out of U.S. wireless market amid changes to roaming market

Pioneer Cellular in Oklahoma and Indigo Wireless in Pennsylvania have decided to exit the US wireless industry. They are the latest small wireless network operators to do so. The operators’ decisions likely reflect the increasing pressures that have challenged the nation’s small wireless network operators to compete with giant, nationwide wireless providers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. […]

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UK public-safety agencies caught in middle of much-delayed proposed Airwave-ESN transition

Costs associated with the UK Home Office’s failure to deliver the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN) as a replacement for the TETRA-based Airwave system owned by Motorola Solutions should not be borne solely by public-safety agencies, according to the head of a Parliament committee overseeing the ESN project. ESN was supposed to be completed in […]

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Doubts grow over viability of UK’s LTE-based ESN

The problems encountered by the UK’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) have been well documented, but it seems that certain long-time observers of the troubled system are now daring to think the unthinkable: could it be that the ESN will never in fact become a reality, at least in its present form? Originally heralded as a […]

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Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says

Amid calls for accountability, one financial analyst firm estimates it will cost up to $60 billion to remove thousands of aging telecom cables covered in lead. According to the firm, New Street Research, AT&T is squarely in the crosshairs. “AT&T likely has the highest [financial] exposure overall, followed by Verizon and Lumen,” the firm wrote […]

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Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category

Local governments will increase their budgets in at least one technology in the coming year, says Kevin Taylor, area sales manager at Axis Communications, a producer of video surveillance equipment and other products. “We are optimistic about the growth of video-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in local government. We are at a nexus where the […]

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Chinese APT cracks Microsoft Outlook e-mails at 25 government agencies

This spring, a Chinese threat actor had access to email accounts across 25 government agencies in Western Europe and the US, including the State Department. On July 11, Microsoft reported having quelled a cyberespionage campaign carried out by the group it tracks as “Storm-0558.” Storm-0558 is based in China and appears focused on espionage, primarily against Western […]

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Business-industrial LMR licensing struggles during first half of 2023, public-safety activity similar to 2022

Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity through the first of the year has occurred at a pace that is similar to last year in the public-safety arena and behind in the business-industrial sphere—so far behind that it could establish a new all-time low for the enterprise space at the end of the year. One aspect of the […]

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U.S. government warns on 5G network-slicing security

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Progress on Release 18 features continues at June 3GPP Plenary meetings; Release 19 remains on track

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Rising insurance costs could force apartment sales, threaten new development

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Pioneer, Indigo tap out of U.S. wireless market amid changes to roaming market

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UK public-safety agencies caught in middle of much-delayed proposed Airwave-ESN transition

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Doubts grow over viability of UK’s LTE-based ESN

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Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says

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Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category

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Chinese APT cracks Microsoft Outlook e-mails at 25 government agencies

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Business-industrial LMR licensing struggles during first half of 2023, public-safety activity similar to 2022

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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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