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Newscan: Law-enforcement radios failed during Uvalde school mass shooting, Texas official says

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Law-enforcement radios failed during Uvalde school mass shooting, Texas official says CTA: FCC receiver mandates could stifle innovation Cyber risks found in flood-management system in southeastern states Frustration rising with Motorola Solutions as Texas county’s radio project hits another delay DARPA report finds vulnerabilities in Blockchain tech, non-secure […]

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AT&T, Verizon agree to another year of C-band mitigation around airports

AT&T and Verizon have agreed to curtail their 5G networks around select airports for another year, until July 2023, under a new agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “The wireless companies offered Friday to continue with some level of voluntary mitigations for another year,” the FAA wrote in a release. The agency did not provide […]

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Nobody has the foggiest about the edge

Cisco once tried to popularize fog computing as an alternative to the edge. If you’ve never heard of it, you are not alone. For a short period, fog computing gave rise to a new industry group called the OpenFog Consortium (because the industry needed another group with open prefixing its name), but this was eventually […]

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Newscan: AT&T, Verizon give FAA another year to fix altimeters

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations AT&T, Verizon give FAA another year to fix altimeters House subcommittee advances bills to extend FCC auction authority, boost Huawei rip-and-replace funds As gas prices surge, Michigan sheriff asks deputies to manage some dispatch calls by phone Kentucky court delves into police use of cellphones for tracking Slew […]

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Projected 5G device-to-device range falls short of LMR performance, simulator says

Device-to-device communications in 5G—known as sidelink—promise to provide new flexibility and functionality, but its potential range is expected to pale in comparison to the land-mobile-radio (LMR) direct-mode offerings used by public-safety responders today, according to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research. Chunmei Liu, a researcher in the Wireless Networks Division of the Communications […]

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Hyundai launches robotaxi trial with its own autonomous-vehicle (AV) tech

Hyundai is trialing a rideshare service in one of Seoul’s busiest districts with two electric Ioniq 5s that feature in-house developed self-driving technology. The RoboRide pilot will be the first rideshare service with autonomous vehicles (AVs) to take place in Gangnam – the fashionable, but heavily congested area made famous by the 2012 global pop hit Gangnam Style – and […]

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Stellantis claims on-the-go electric-vehicle charging a reality

Stellantis claims its ‘Scalextric’ on-the-go EV charging project has shown the system is a fully robust and practical solution after months of testing. As TU-Automotive reported in December, the automaker created a special test circuit at its Arena del Futuro and, together with project partners, set out to trial the capability of dynamic wireless power transfer […]

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FirstNet Authority CTO highlights coverage-extension efforts as initial Band 14 buildout nears completion

With AT&T almost done deploying the initial contracted FirstNet 700 MHz Band 14 infrastructure, the FirstNet Authority increasingly is focusing on solutions that will let public-safety users access the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) when outside of terrestrial system, according to FirstNet officials. FirstNet Authority CTO Jeff Bratcher said that NPSBN contractor AT&T repeatedly has […]

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Old-fashioned trust still biggest challenge to connected autonomous vehicles

Thales says, globally, there will be 75 million vehicles with autonomous capabilities by 2035. However, to reassure the users of the vehicles, as well as to increase uptake of connected and autonomous vehicles, along with efficient connectivity has to come stringent cybersecurity. Trust is key to their development, including in how the data from the […]

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Updated: PSCR gets new support from NIST as current federal funding set to expire in fall

[Editor’s note–This article has been updated to reflect that NIST will provide base funding for about two dozen PSCR researchers.] SAN DIEGO—Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) will see its primary $300 million allocation from Congress expire this fall, but at least a portion of this money will be offset by new funding from the National […]

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Newscan: Law-enforcement radios failed during Uvalde school mass shooting, Texas official says

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AT&T, Verizon agree to another year of C-band mitigation around airports

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Nobody has the foggiest about the edge

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Newscan: AT&T, Verizon give FAA another year to fix altimeters

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Projected 5G device-to-device range falls short of LMR performance, simulator says

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Hyundai launches robotaxi trial with its own autonomous-vehicle (AV) tech

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Stellantis claims on-the-go electric-vehicle charging a reality

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FirstNet Authority CTO highlights coverage-extension efforts as initial Band 14 buildout nears completion

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Old-fashioned trust still biggest challenge to connected autonomous vehicles

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Updated: PSCR gets new support from NIST as current federal funding set to expire in fall

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