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Powering 5G cell sites may rack up big costs for operators

When the mobile industry talks about 5G, the discussion is usually focused on the capacity gains and the lightning fast speeds it will deliver. But achieving those 5G benefits requires more macro cell sites as well as small cells, and that equates to increased power consumption and higher energy costs for mobile operators. But most […]

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AT&T updates FirstNet numbers, says it has closed coverage gap with Verizon

FirstNet subscribers—more than 11,000 public-safety agencies representing more than 1.2 million connection—have access to an expanding AT&T LTE network that covers more than 2.61 million miles in the U.S., making the coverage difference between AT&T and Verizon “nearly imperceptible,” according to an AT&T executive. “We’ve been on a mission for some time now to make […]

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5G in IoT starts to crystallize in Industrial IoT market

Much of the attention on 5G technology centers on a future of smarter phones, drones and self-driving cars. But 5G’s role in next-generation industrial IoT applications bears watching as well. While 5G may be one among many evolutionary steps, it is important in the development of new industrial IoT use cases. 5G connectivity, is the fifth […]

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Federated Wireless teams with AWS, Microsoft on cloud-based CBRS offerings

Federated Wireless this week announced a new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) private-network offering focused on Internet of Things (IoT) applications that will be delivered via marketplace platforms run by cloud giants Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi stressed the importance of simplicity in the connectivity-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings that […]

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Verizon: We have more unused network capacity today than five years ago

Verizon this week sought to counter ongoing worries that its wireless network won’t be able to support any more customers or traffic. Specifically, the company released a chart showing the growth of traffic on its network and its efforts to keep pace with that traffic through the application of more spectrum and new wireless technologies […]

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PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform

Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]

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Sprint/T-Mobile merger: The six big things that should happen next

Although the companies have overcome several substantial obstacles facing their proposed merger, Sprint and T-Mobile are not done yet. There are still a few significant roadblocks the companies must address before their merger can close. Here’s what’s probably going to happen next, in the order it will probably occur: 1. An appeal The first thing […]

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Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities

Lt. Jared Reinhardt of the Texas Military Department provides a tour of the organization’s deployable command vehicles, which support multiband LMR, cellular broadband, satellite backhaul and bridging technologies that are designed to enable interoperability between disparate systems. Reinhardt spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during a field exercise conducted at the RELLIS campus […]

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Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks

Inseego is in the midst of testing how its products can work with products from CommScope, with an eye toward putting the two together in order to sell them to enterprises that want to build their own private wireless LTE networks. “Inseego is a cellular radio equipment (modem/gateway/router) provider, and is seeking to partner with […]

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Motorola Solutions reports record LMR sales in 2019, despite Florida setback

Motorola Solutions posted its second consecutive year of record North American land-mobile-radio (LMR) sales, despite the company’s failure to reach a contract agreement for a statewide Florida network—an initiative in which Motorola Solutions still hopes to participate, according to company officials. During the quarterly earnings call conducted last week, Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown repeatedly […]

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Powering 5G cell sites may rack up big costs for operators

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AT&T updates FirstNet numbers, says it has closed coverage gap with Verizon

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5G in IoT starts to crystallize in Industrial IoT market

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Federated Wireless teams with AWS, Microsoft on cloud-based CBRS offerings

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Verizon: We have more unused network capacity today than five years ago

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PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform

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Sprint/T-Mobile merger: The six big things that should happen next

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Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities

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Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks

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Motorola Solutions reports record LMR sales in 2019, despite Florida setback

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