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Zipline delivery drone docks, charges by itself

Zipline has unveiled its new autonomous drone platform, designed to provide accurate everyday delivery to homes in the U.S., including in busy residential areas. Zipline’s previous delivery system worked by parachuting parcels into a specified area. Now the new drone, dubbed Platform 2 or P2 Zip, sends its goods down to customers via a tether […]

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State and local leaders can alleviate the burden on public-safety personnel by tackling three workforce trends

Government officials and public safety leaders wear many different hats. They serve as sounding boards for constituent complaints and for new ideas that need vetting. They are change agents charged with improving the lives of citizens and colleagues and are tasked with keeping order. Their most daunting responsibility, however, is keeping members of their community […]

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6G is shaping up to disappoint, and the industry can blame itself

One of the gripes frequently aired about 5G is that it’s merely a souped-up version of 4G, as if the mobile networks industry was supposed to invent time travel or at least find a cure for cancer. The unimaginative marketers are largely to blame for this with their overpromotion of the Gs as something that […]

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Telcos need to build businesses, as well as networks

Telcos are over-invested in 5G in every sense of the phrase. The latest mobile generation has fallen well short of expectations, as recent numbers from analyst firm MTN Consulting attest. Total operator revenue actually declined in the second and third quarters last year, largely as a result of weak service revenues, MTN found. In Q3, for […]

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Get ready for the summer of spectrum squabbling

Last week, for the first time ever, Congress allowed the FCC’s spectrum auction authority to lapse – a development that prevents the agency from auctioning more spectrum to 5G network operators. At roughly the same time last week, President Joe Biden’s Democratic nominee to the FCC, Gigi Sohn, abruptly withdrew from contention without any clear replacement. That leaves the […]

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FCC proposes initial satellite-direct-to-phone regulatory framework

FCC commissioners yesterday approved a proposal that would provide an initial regulatory framework for the agency to support supplemental-coverage-from-space (SCS)—or satellite-direct-to-cell-phone—services being explored by numerous satellite operators and terrestrial wireless carriers, including on FirstNet Authority spectrum. Under the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that was passed by a 4-0 vote, the FCC “seeks to establish […]

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Cloud services: A cloudy forecast for state and local governments

Cloud services continue to grow exponentially making it flourish into a multi-billion-dollar industry. According to a survey by Synergy Research Group, the global cloud infrastructure services market grew by 35 percent in 2020, with the top five cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and IBM) capturing more than 70 percent of the market […]

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Wassel describes FirstNet Authority CEO post as ‘dream job’

Joe Wassel just started his job as FirstNet Authority CEO, and he plans to hit the ground running, embracing the organization’s tradition of outreach to public-safety and first-responder personnel to inform the decision-making process. That particularly will be the case during the next four months, Wassel said. “I plan on leading this effort by being […]

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Ransomware’s favorite target: Critical infrastructure and its industrial control systems

National defense and security experts long predicted that future warfare would not be waged by firearms but with code designed to disable services people depend on for daily life. In May 2021, security experts’ worst fears came true, when a ransomware attack struck the Colonial Pipeline. Gas delivery to most of the US Northeast halted almost […]

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Will driverless cars need remote human supervision?

Over the last few years autonomous vehicle start-ups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on their cars being truly self-driving. Yet, international news agency Reuters reported in September 2022 that they may not in the end be totally autonomous. Industry experts and executives believe there may be a need for remote human supervisors […]

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Zipline delivery drone docks, charges by itself

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State and local leaders can alleviate the burden on public-safety personnel by tackling three workforce trends

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6G is shaping up to disappoint, and the industry can blame itself

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Telcos need to build businesses, as well as networks

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Get ready for the summer of spectrum squabbling

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FCC proposes initial satellite-direct-to-phone regulatory framework

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Cloud services: A cloudy forecast for state and local governments

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Wassel describes FirstNet Authority CEO post as ‘dream job’

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Ransomware’s favorite target: Critical infrastructure and its industrial control systems

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Will driverless cars need remote human supervision?

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

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up