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UK competition watchdog proposes price controls on Motorola Solutions’ Airwave system

Motorola Solutions could see its projected annual profits shrink by as much as $178 million for providing United Kingdom (UK) public-safety personnel with mission-critical communications via the company’s nationwide Airwave TETRA network, according to a new proposal from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). CMA today released its proposal for price control on Airwave services […]

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Airbus-Capgemini consortium chosen for France public-safety-broadband system

The French Ministry of the Interior and Overseas Territories has selected the consortium led by Airbus and Capgemini to play the key integrator role in the Réseau Radio du Futur (RRF, or Radio Network of the Future) that is designed to provide public-safety broadband services throughout France. When completed, the RRF is expected to provide secure, […]

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Airlines start asking for permanent changes to C-band 5G

The airline industry has begun petitioning the FCC to make permanent changes to the operation of some 5G networks around airports. “These concepts … would appear to not compromise wireless operators’ actual use cases while further assuring aviation safety and providing a workable RF environment against which future radio altimeters can be designed and built,” […]

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State cybersecurity organizations in ‘heightened risk environment,’ according to report

As state and local cybersecurity organizations across the United States emerge from a few difficult years, one aspect of the future is for certain: It will be shaped by the same digital advancements that, since the pandemic’s outset, have propelled the nation into an unprecedented era of technological innovation in the public sector. “While it […]

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AT&T names Bugel as president of FirstNet unit

AT&T this week announced that longtime FirstNet advocate Jim Bugel will be the new president of the carrier’s FirstNet program—the unit charged with building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) for the FirstNet Authority—amid several changes in the company’s leadership. Bugel will succeed Jason Porter, who has led AT&T’s FirstNet unit for the […]

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Newscan: Could one hospital’s new EMS app improve response times?

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Could one hospital’s new EMS app improve response times? GAO: Communications breakdowns hurt otherwise positive view of federal ransomware support Ukrainian officials reportedly say there have been ‘catastrophic’ Starlink outages in recent weeks Patient care delayed at large hospital chain after ransomware attack To pay, or not to […]

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Verizon still faces a 3G problem

Verizon has been talking publicly about shutting down its 3G network for roughly seven years now. But in the next few months, it looks like the company will finally, officially do it. If Verizon does shutter its 3G network on January 1, 2023, as it has promised, it will be the last big US wireless network operator […]

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Ubicquia’s UbiHub leverages streetlights to support video, broadband, IoT-based initiatives

Ubicquia has expanded its family of streetlight-mounted platforms with UbiHub, an easily deployed solution that integrates smart-lighting functionality and wireless broadband access and can support video-based applications with built-in cameras and optional artificial-intelligence (AI) edge processing in an unobtrusive package. Ubicquia CEO Ian Aaron cited UbiHub’s versatility, describing the platform as the “Swiss Army knife […]

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Is network slicing toast?

Ericsson and pals are still desperately trying to present network slicing as the best thing since another famous sliced innovation that took breadknives out of the toast-making routine and is far easier for the average punter to digest. It’s a $200 billion sales opportunity for telcos, cooed executives from the Swedish equipment maker on a […]

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T-Mobile: AT&T’s FirstNet ‘has not fulfilled all of its promises’

T-Mobile is looking to land some punches on AT&T’s burgeoning public-safety business by calling in the ref. The company told the FCC that it should require FirstNet to disclose details about its ongoing relationship with AT&T. T-Mobile also told the commission that it should make clear that “FirstNet must provide interoperability that ensures all public […]

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UK competition watchdog proposes price controls on Motorola Solutions’ Airwave system

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Airbus-Capgemini consortium chosen for France public-safety-broadband system

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Airlines start asking for permanent changes to C-band 5G

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State cybersecurity organizations in ‘heightened risk environment,’ according to report

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AT&T names Bugel as president of FirstNet unit

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Newscan: Could one hospital’s new EMS app improve response times?

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Verizon still faces a 3G problem

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Ubicquia’s UbiHub leverages streetlights to support video, broadband, IoT-based initiatives

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Is network slicing toast?

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T-Mobile: AT&T’s FirstNet ‘has not fulfilled all of its promises’

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

Events

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up