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Anterix: Execs discuss federal-funding option for utilities’ private LTE

Anterix COO Ryan Gerbrandt (yes, that’s his name, despite what you hear in the audio), left, and Chris Guttman-McCabe—chief regulatory and communications officer for Anterix—explain how utilities may use federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to pay for private LTE networks that are capable of supporting important smart-grid applications.

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LA-RICS P25 system on track for October 2023 acceptance, official says

Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) expect to accept the organization’s long-awaited P25 system in less than a year, according to information provided last week to the LA-RICS Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) board. LA-RICS Executive Director Scott Edson said the P25 system appears to remain on track to be completed by October 2023, although […]

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SBA pulls ahead in the edge-computing race

Cell-tower giant SBA Communications appears to be creating a sizable lead in the 5G industry’s race to edge computing. The company recently disclosed that it is in the midst of operating or constructing 30-40 edge-computing sites around the country – that’s more than many of the company’s competitors and customers. “I would say we probably […]

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Laser attack can blind self-driving cars

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are vulnerable to a laser attack that could potentially “blind” them, putting pedestrians at risk. That’s the alarming conclusion arrived at by a team of researchers from the United States and Japan. Researchers from the University of Florida, the University of Michigan and the University of Electro-Communications in Chofu, Japan conducted a series of […]

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Newscan: Dish and DirecTV have a window to finally merge after mid-term elections, Ergen says

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Dish and DirecTV have a window to finally merge after mid-term elections, Ergen says Renee Gordon appointed to replace Karima Holmes on FirstNet Authority board The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC FCC will launch new Space Bureau RapidDeploy mapping tech backs South Carolina 988 hotline Copper thief cuts […]

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Motorola Solutions “likely” to exit LTE-based ESN in UK early, company says

Motorola Solutions expects to “exit” its role as a key vendor for the Emergency Services Network (ESN)—the much-delayed public-safety LTE system in the United Kingdom (UK)—in the near future while continuing to oppose a UK watchdog’s findings that its Airwave TETRA service is anticompetitive, company officials said. Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown said the company’s […]

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In the race to space, Bullitt eschews proprietary approaches

Bullitt, a UK-based maker of hardened Android smartphones, said it will leverage 3GPP-based 5G technology standards in its efforts to connect its forthcoming smartphones directly to satellites. That, according to Bullitt’s co-founder Richard Wharton, makes the company different from Apple, which recently announced that its new iPhone 14 can connect directly to satellites. “It’s a very different […]

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Eliminating the grey areas of CAV insurance

The UK government is taking some positive steps forward with regard to addressing some of the great areas of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) liability and insurance. That’s the view of the global law firm Clyde and Co. These include government support for a clear bright line test between human driver control and true self-driving, […]

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IoT World Austin 2022: Chunghwa Telecom on the future of smart cities

What is a smart city? While it’s a term many of us have heard countless times, in reality few people actually know what it entails, and what a city needs to have to be classified as “smart.” So what will the cities of our future look like? IoT tech guru Jeff Mo from Chunghwa Telecom […]

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Xcel Energy agrees to $80 million contract with Anterix

Xcel Energy—an electric and natural-gas utility that operates in eight states—has agreed to pay $80 million for the right to operate a private broadband network supporting smart-grid applications for at least 20 years on 900 MHz broadband spectrum licensed to Anterix, the companies announced this week. Anterix CEO Rob Schwartz said that the deal gives […]

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Anterix: Execs discuss federal-funding option for utilities’ private LTE

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LA-RICS P25 system on track for October 2023 acceptance, official says

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SBA pulls ahead in the edge-computing race

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Laser attack can blind self-driving cars

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Newscan: Dish and DirecTV have a window to finally merge after mid-term elections, Ergen says

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Motorola Solutions “likely” to exit LTE-based ESN in UK early, company says

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In the race to space, Bullitt eschews proprietary approaches

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Eliminating the grey areas of CAV insurance

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IoT World Austin 2022: Chunghwa Telecom on the future of smart cities

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Xcel Energy agrees to $80 million contract with Anterix

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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UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up