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Samsung, AT&T announce rugged smartphone, tablet as FirstNet Ready

Samsung and AT&T yesterday announced that its Galaxy XCover Pro rugged smartphone and Tab Active Pro tablet have been certified as FirstNet Ready, expanding the device portfolio for first responders and field workers utilizing the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). Samsung’s Galaxy XCover Pro has similar ruggedness characteristics to the Galaxy XCover Field Pro, which […]

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Verizon explains exactly how it will make money from 5G

Verizon hosted a strategy session for investors this week, detailing its 5G network upgrade efforts and – perhaps more importantly – how it plans to make money from the construction of that network. In a response to questions from analysts on the topic, Verizon CFO Matthew Ellis said that the operator expects to recoup its […]

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IoT spending is a mixed picture in 2020

Budget constraints have long been one of the chief barriers to Internet of Things (IoT) technology adoption, along with staffing and security concerns. But while more than half (52%) of the respondents to the 2020 IoT Adoption Survey cited either budget hurdles or high technology costs as challenges, other data suggests a more complicated picture. […]

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Nextivity: Dean Richmond highlights new offerings, previews IWCE’s In-Building Forum

Dean Richmond, senior director of marketing at Cel-Fi by Nextivity, discusses his company’s new in-building solutions, which include an offering that is designed to support FirstNet communications utilizing Band 14 700 MHz spectrum. Nextivity speakers will be featured during IWCE’s In-Building Forum, a virtual event being presented Nov. 18-19, in partnership with the Safer Buildings […]

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Zoom settles with FTC for fibbing over encryption

Zoom has agreed a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after the agency said the San Jose, California-based company deceived users about its security encryption. Eric Yuan’s company misrepresented the security of both its videoconferencing and cloud storage, and in so doing engaged in “a series of deceptive and unfair practices that undermined the security of […]

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ESChat upgrades public-safety users to Amazon AWS GovCloud for enhanced security, interoperability

ESChat this week announced that the company has migrated public-safety customers of its push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) application to the Amazon AWS GovCloud platform in a move that is designed to improve security and enable greater interoperability with customers’ land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems. “It’s been a long time coming, and it’s a big step for us,” ESChat CEO […]

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Ranplan Wireless: Jonathan Rowney outlines in-building challenges, opportunities in evolving market

Jonathan Rowney, the head of solutions engineering for the Americas at Ranplan Wireless, discusses some of the challenges and opportunities facing the in-building wireless industry today, particularly as it tries to ensure connectivity for both first responders and the citizens they help during times of emergency. Rowney is one of the expert speakers who […]

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An integrated approach to IoT security

Ranging from autonomous vehicles to connected wind turbines, the Internet of Things is far from a monolithic technological concept. A single device can involve a patchwork of software and hardware. Securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices thus requires a comprehensive approach. (Take part in IoT Security Summit this December.) This e-book takes an integrated approach to IoT […]

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TinyML could democratize AI programming for IoT

Much of the development in machine language (ML) implementations follows a “bigger is better” path: more data, more storage, more compute power, more bandwidth all equals better results – or so the mantra goes. But a community-based effort is moving in the opposite direction, building “TinyML” implementations for use on low-powered devices with scarce computer […]

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Barriers facing the builders of the smart city

A series of challenges remain for the key technologies to an autonomous future, among them fast moving technological developments and lack of consumer understanding. Architecturally speaking, there should be no change because these types of communications technologies are going to use the existing cell connection embedded in the car, explained Strategy Analytics analyst Roger Lanctot. […]

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Samsung, AT&T announce rugged smartphone, tablet as FirstNet Ready

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Verizon explains exactly how it will make money from 5G

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IoT spending is a mixed picture in 2020

Audio

Nextivity: Dean Richmond highlights new offerings, previews IWCE’s In-Building Forum

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Zoom settles with FTC for fibbing over encryption

News

ESChat upgrades public-safety users to Amazon AWS GovCloud for enhanced security, interoperability

Audio

Ranplan Wireless: Jonathan Rowney outlines in-building challenges, opportunities in evolving market

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An integrated approach to IoT security

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TinyML could democratize AI programming for IoT

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Barriers facing the builders of the smart city

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

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up