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House committee unanimously passes bill to provide $14.8 billion in NG911 funding

House Energy & Commerce Committee members unanimously advanced a bill that would reauthorize the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions for three years and provide $14.8 billion to transition the nation’s 911 center from legacy technologies to an IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) platform. Committee members yesterday voted 50-0 to send the bill—H.R. 3565, the “Spectrum […]

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Eurobites: Belgium’s Citymesh taps Nokia for drone-based emergency network

Belgian operator Citymesh is to use Nokia’s drone networks platform for a 5G-based emergency services system in what the Finnish vendor describes as a first-of-its-kind contract. Nokia will supply 70 of its “drone-in-a-box” units that will be deployed in 35 designated emergency zones across Belgium, gathering information in the critical 15-minute period immediately following an […]

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AT&T claims satellite-direct-to-phone deal with AST SpaceMobile in FCC waiver filing

AT&T told the FCC that it has agreed to have satellite-direct-to-phone company AST SpaceMobile provide supplemental-coverage-from-space (SCS) services to its subscribers and asked the FCC to approve waivers that allow AST to operate on leased spectrum from AT&T in the 700 MHz and 850 MHz bands. In a filing to the FCC made public today, […]

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Dallas restores core emergency-dispatch systems

Dallas officials on Monday said critical services have been restored following a widespread outage caused by last week’s ransomware attack. The Dallas Police Department and city’s websites are back online as of Sunday, Bill Zielinski, CIO for the City of Dallas, said during a city council public safety committee meeting. The city continues to recover and restore […]

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Dallas still recovering from ransomware on eve of municipal election

Dallas is reeling from a ransomware attack just as early voting is slated to begin for a municipal general election that will determine the mayorship and council district representatives. The election, which is slated for Saturday, is unaffected by the attack, the city secretary’s office said in the statement. “Since City of Dallas’ information and […]

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Motorola Solutions says Airwave price controls unlikely to be effective this year

A ruling by the competition watchdog in the United Kingdom (UK) about the Airwave TETRA system is projected to cost Motorola Solutions more than $1 billion, but an SEC filing from the company indicates that the proposed price controls likely will not become effective until at least next year when the appeals process is complete. […]

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While status for telecommunicators starts to improve, compensation continues to lag

National Telecommunicators Week is being celebrated nationwide this week—and rightly so. Telecommunicators represent the hub of the emergency-response wheel, and this has been the case for a very long time. When 911 service first emerged in the United States, which occurred in 1968, it was common for a secretary in a sheriff’s office to answer […]

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A closer look at the Dish 5G/satellite effort for the U.S. military

Several top wireless executives – including Dish and EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen – recently celebrated the launch of a new private wireless 5G network for the Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island, a major naval operation in the Pacific Northwest. EchoStar released a picture of the ribbon-cutting event, which also featured John Mezzalingua of JMA Wireless, […]

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John Deere creates farm of the future

John Deere is taking high-tech farming to the next level. The company made a splash at CES in Las Vegas two years ago when it introduced a fully self-driving tractor. It followed up at the next CES earlier this year by showing its high-tech fertilizer and chemical spreader on a long boom pulled by a […]

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‘Rip and replace’ lobbying grows louder

Players from across the telecom spectrum continue to push Congress to dig up more money to pay for the removal of Huawei and ZTE equipment from US networks. So far though, companies participating in the FCC’s “rip and replace” program only stand to get about 40% of what they say they need to finish the job. The […]

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House committee unanimously passes bill to provide $14.8 billion in NG911 funding

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Eurobites: Belgium’s Citymesh taps Nokia for drone-based emergency network

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AT&T claims satellite-direct-to-phone deal with AST SpaceMobile in FCC waiver filing

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Dallas restores core emergency-dispatch systems

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Dallas still recovering from ransomware on eve of municipal election

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Motorola Solutions says Airwave price controls unlikely to be effective this year

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While status for telecommunicators starts to improve, compensation continues to lag

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A closer look at the Dish 5G/satellite effort for the U.S. military

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John Deere creates farm of the future

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‘Rip and replace’ lobbying grows louder

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

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