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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

FirstNet Authority officials yesterday released the 2023 update to the organization’s Roadmap, which highlighted technological innovations associated with the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) but repeatedly referenced first responders’ need for reliable communications that “simply work” in even difficult environments. Informed by public-safety input collected via multiple outreach avenues, the FirstNet Authority Roadmap (access the […]

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

Every time I read about a public safety agency being short staffed, with a burnt-out workforce, draining their overtime budget, I feel their pain. From New York to New Mexico and in communities all across the nation, police and fire departments routinely are forced to mandate longer shifts, which takes an emotional toll and raises […]

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5G may still affect airline travel this summer

The wireless industry and the airline industry in the US have been engaged for years now in a careful game of brinkmanship over the rollout of 5G. And, according to the US Secretary of Transportation, the situation may end up affecting some airline traffic later this summer. “There’s a real risk of delays or cancellations,” […]

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Rosenworcel warns Congress that not funding ACP will ‘cut families off’

With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) set to run out of funding early next year, the importance of sustaining the program took center stage with House Democrats at an FCC oversight hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was the FCC’s first before the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee this year and touched on a range of […]

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Here comes the new satellite age

The new age of satellite has been creeping up on us for a while. Even so, it’s a surprise to realize how significant it is going to be for telecom. Over the next decade direct satellite services will likely bring broadband to hundreds of millions of rural users, become a key enabler of 6G and […]

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AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology

AST SpaceMobile today announced that its satellite-direct-to-phone technology enabled unmodified smartphones to achieve download speeds greater than 10 Mbps during tests with the company’s BlueWalker 3 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) test satellite. Conducted in Hawaii, tests demonstrated initial download speeds transmitted from the BlueWalker 3 satellites reached 10.3 Mbps on “everyday, off-the-shelf smartphones,” according to an AST […]

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Deutsche Telekom boss prepared to defy EU and stick with Huawei

Asked why he was still living in Europe, Timotheus Höttges (pictured above) had no quick response. The boss of Deutsche Telekom, Germany’s biggest telco, had just spent several minutes on a panel laying into regional policymakers and arguing that T-Mobile US, an American subsidiary, was the best and most innovative thing about his entire business. […]

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Telia is building 5G cell towers for the battlefield

Tank behind her, a young woman dressed in combat fatigues sports an incongruous-looking pink smartphone on a muddy road somewhere in Ukraine. Named Dasha, she is a practitioner of BYOD (bring your own device), a phenomenon normally observed in the office rather than on the battlefield. At one time, her Ukrainian military superiors would probably […]

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Renee Gordon named as FirstNet Authority board vice chair

The FirstNet Authority today announced that 911 veteran Renee Gordon is the new vice chair for the FirstNet Authority board, effective immediately. Gordon, who was joined the FirstNet Authority board last November, is the director of the emergency communications center in Alexandria, Va., and previously served as the 911 director in Baltimore, Md. “I am […]

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German Huawei ban to cost €2.5B and take years, no thanks to EU

Huawei’s European empire is slowly crumbling. Ejected from smaller markets such as Sweden and left to gradually rot in bigger ones like the UK, the controversial Chinese equipment maker now faces the prospect of a comprehensive EU-wide clampdown on the use of its products. Thierry Breton, a former telco boss who now works as the […]

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

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5G may still affect airline travel this summer

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Rosenworcel warns Congress that not funding ACP will ‘cut families off’

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Here comes the new satellite age

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AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology

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Deutsche Telekom boss prepared to defy EU and stick with Huawei

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Telia is building 5G cell towers for the battlefield

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Renee Gordon named as FirstNet Authority board vice chair

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German Huawei ban to cost €2.5B and take years, no thanks to EU

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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