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Georgia turns to Carbyne to enhance location information for statewide transportation system

Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) has awarded Carbyne a five-year statewide contract after the company’s c-Live Universe reduced the time to locate motorists needing help by more than 85% during a three-month pilot program, according to Georgia DOT and Carbyne officials. Matt Glasser, an assistant state traffic engineer for the Georgia DOT, said c-Live […]

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Verizon and IBM team up on 5G, MEC testbed

Verizon and IBM are collaborating on a new testbed at IBM’s Industry Solution Lab to provide enterprise customers with the tools to develop and test 5G use cases and Industry 4.0 applications. Verizon has installed 5G Ultra Wideband and its Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) platform at the testbed, based in Coppell, TX, so enterprise customers […]

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Is it finally time to acknowledge broadband as a utility?

Apparently, 75 percent of Americans think so. A recent study published by Consumer Reports—Survey on Broadband Affordability, Accessibility, and Quality of Service in the United States—showed a dramatic shift from previous years’ surveys. Over three-quarters of U.S. residents now view home internet as a basic necessity with a similar share of respondents voicing support for public […]

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Going beyond IoT GPS: A cookbook for mobile IoT applications

Mobile IoT applications can be challenging to implement, when compared against their cousins in fixed locations. In other forms of IoT, it’s common for enterprises to acquire IoT as a packaged system that includes IoT devices, controllers, software, and even vertical-market-specific tools, instruments, and vehicles. In mobile IoT, the applications are often assembled from discrete […]

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Verizon takes cautious cloud approach

Ed Chan, Verizon’s chief network engineering officer, told the financial analysts at Cowen that the operator has no immediate plans to shift its core network operations into the cloud like AT&T and Dish Network plan to do. However, he said Verizon will continue to look for ways to team with cloud computing providers. For example, […]

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FirstNet Authority seeks input on potential solutions to off-network challenges

FirstNet Authority officials released a request for information (RFI) seeking input about direct-mode and other technological solutions to address the issue of providing broadband communications support “off-network”—when first responders are in a location not supported by FirstNet’s terrestrial macro LTE system. “We’re looking beyond the horizon—how does this look going forward?—and pulling that into the […]

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NextNav optimistic about Z-axis location technology deployment in coming months

Vertical-location, or Z-axis, technology is beginning to gain momentum for both first-responder and 911 applications, as well as attracting increasing attention from the commercial marketplace, according to an official from NextNav, a provider of Z-axis solutions. In January, FirstNet announced the availability of Z-axis information via technology from NextNav and its partner Intrepid that is […]

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Newscan: Senate passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill, handing Biden a bipartisan win

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Senate passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill, handing Biden a bipartisan win Data-center duo tout ‘near-premise’ edge compute as ‘easy button’ for 5G Oklahoma 911 dispatch center temporarily shut down due to COVID-19 Infrastructure bill allows FCC, NTIA to define ‘reliable’ broadband FCC releases new map of LTE voice, […]

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Weather still a challenge to autonomous vehicles

In the drive towards full autonomy, vehicle makers and solutions providers must tackle a nearly impossible variety of factors. Some of these, often necessarily, are more attention-grabbing than others but there are numerous ones just as critical that don’t typically appear in auto technology headlines. One is the weather, which is somewhat odd because information […]

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Smart-city technology drives efficient disaster response and recovery

From heatwave-induced wildfires in the West to unrelenting hurricanes in the Southeast, natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. As evidenced in 2020’s historic year of extreme cases, totaling 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, we can expect this trend to continue. Today, wildfire season is longer and more severe […]

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Georgia turns to Carbyne to enhance location information for statewide transportation system

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Verizon and IBM team up on 5G, MEC testbed

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Is it finally time to acknowledge broadband as a utility?

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Going beyond IoT GPS: A cookbook for mobile IoT applications

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Verizon takes cautious cloud approach

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FirstNet Authority seeks input on potential solutions to off-network challenges

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NextNav optimistic about Z-axis location technology deployment in coming months

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Newscan: Senate passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill, handing Biden a bipartisan win

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Weather still a challenge to autonomous vehicles

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Smart-city technology drives efficient disaster response and recovery

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Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

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