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Public clouds join telcos to enable 5G at the edge

With 5G infrastructure rollouts making gradual but steady progress, the stage is set for public clouds to increase value for enterprise users. This cloud-telco complementary relationship will flourish mainly through partnerships which overlay cloud services and core software stacks directly on the telco’s 5G network. Edge clouds that deliver faster network speed and programmable virtualization […]

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Kymeta, Comtech announce partnership to enhance satellite offerings

Kymeta and Comtech Telecommunications recently announced a technology and business-development partnership that will result with Comtech’s UHP-200 satellite router being embedded into Kymeta’s u8 flat-panel satellite terminal, according to a Kymeta official. Bill Marks, Kymeta’s executive vice president and chief development officer, said the Comtech partnership will provide future u8-terminal customers will a new embedded-technology […]

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Newscan: Report details mishandling of police emergency system, simulcast failures on 1/6

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Report details mishandling of police emergency system, simulcast failures on 1/6 Critical update: When seeing no longer means believing, what’s a government to do? Rescue robots get a speed upgrade for rough terrain Cloud-native incident management streamlines emergency response SpaceX adding capabilities to Starlink Internet satellites, plans to […]

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Lockheed Martin: 5G from space is ‘ultimate high ground’ for US military

Lockheed Martin, the US military’s biggest contractor, announced a new satellite dish the company said could be used for a 5G network that may eventually help to sync up every weapon under the Pentagon’s control. To be clear, Lockheed Martin’s latest announcement represents one minor step toward a goal that military planners have set for […]

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South Dakota upgrades statewide 911 system to next-generation platform

With the emergence of technologies like GPS and digital video livestreaming, 911 emergency dispatchers have more tools at their fingertips than ever before—contingent, that is, on whether or not the region’s digital infrastructure can handle it. Modernizing America’s 911 service has been an ongoing project for the better part of two decades. South Dakota is […]

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Samsung announces 3GPP IWF-based solution supporting MCPTT-LMR interoperability for public safety

Samsung this week announced a new solution that meets the 3GPP standard for Land Mobile Radio Interworking Function (LMR-IWF), which is designed to let public-safety LTE systems interoperate with P25 and other types of LMR networks. Timothy Paul, senior manager of sales for Samsung Electronics America’s networks business and the author of a blog outlining […]

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SpaceX has shipped 100,000 Starlink terminals

Starlink, SpaceX’s low Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite broadband service, has reached a deployment milestone with word this week that the company has shipped 100,000 Starlink terminals. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced the milestone Monday on Twitter, adding that Starlink now serves parts of 14 countries. “Our license applications are pending in many more countries. Hoping to […]

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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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Public clouds join telcos to enable 5G at the edge

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Kymeta, Comtech announce partnership to enhance satellite offerings

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Newscan: Report details mishandling of police emergency system, simulcast failures on 1/6

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Lockheed Martin: 5G from space is ‘ultimate high ground’ for US military

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South Dakota upgrades statewide 911 system to next-generation platform

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Samsung announces 3GPP IWF-based solution supporting MCPTT-LMR interoperability for public safety

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SpaceX has shipped 100,000 Starlink terminals

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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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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?

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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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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up