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Newscan: House approves omnibus spending bill, funding agencies through September

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations House approves omnibus spending bill, funding agencies through September How technology can reduce emotional toll on public-safety workforce Short extension of FCC auction authority makes the omnibus bill Data brokers raise privacy concerns but get millions from the federal government TikTok admits using its app to spy on […]

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T-Mobile is warehousing spectrum … and other specious arguments

T-Mobile bought almost 200 spectrum licenses in the 3.45GHz range at the beginning of this year, but it doesn’t plan to put those licenses into use until the end of 2023. The company spent almost $1 billion across several FCC millimeter wave spectrum auctions more than two years ago but still has no concrete plans to put that spectrum into widespread […]

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Preparing for BEAD broadband funding

Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a once-in-a-generation $42.45-billion investment into high-speed internet access through the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program will be available to close the digital divide and provide a future-proof telecommunications network for the country. The challenge now is preparing at the local and state levels to ensure funds go to […]

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NG911 funding not part of current omnibus bill as deadline approaches

Federal funding to pay much of the cost to transition 911 centers to IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) technology is not included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill that many in Congress hope to pass prior to Friday’s government-shutdown deadline. There is no mention of NG911 funding in the 4,155-page omnibus funding text that was […]

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Newscan: Lame-duck session nears end with no vote on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Lame-duck session nears end with no vote on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn Omnibus spending bill includes a ban of TikTok on government devices Deal to attach Spectrum Innovation Act to omnibus spending bill is dead, aides confirm DOC adds 36 companies to ‘Entity List,’ 25 removed after checks […]

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AT&T exec Sambar discusses tests with AST SpaceMobile, notes FirstNet implications

AT&T acknowledged its testing of AST SpaceMobile’s satellite-direct-to-phone technology and cited its potential impact in filling coverage gaps, particularly as an augmentation to the FirstNet terrestrial system designed for U.S. first responders. In a video that was released today, AT&T Network President Chris Sambar (pictured above) said AT&T “is really excited about the opportunity to […]

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Newscan: Senate passes short-term funding bill, moving shutdown deadline to Dec. 23

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Senate passes short-term funding bill, moving shutdown deadline to Dec. 23 LAPD unable to track facial-recognition use, report finds T-Mobile refarms PCS, now reaches 260 million people with Ultra Capacity 5G Nokia, Rohde & Schwarz collaborate on network-monitoring drones Nuclear-fusion lab achieve ‘ignition’: What does it mean? Fusion […]

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Tesla appears to be wobbling on camera-only autonomous-vehicle tech

Tesla may be finally admitting its camera-only approach to its automated driving system may not be up to the job as it makes an application to reinstall radar sensors on its cars. Despite Elon Musk’s repeated insistence that a car only needs the same visual assets of a human to drive autonomously, the automaker has […]

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Newscan: Congress set to push back government-shutdown deadline to next week

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Congress set to push back government-shutdown deadline to next week Spectrum sharing in U.S. has support of 242 ISPs and a DoD leader Future astronaut suits could feature augmented reality Solar-powered bus depot adds new energy to Maryland transit U.S. Senate aims for stop-gap bill as funding deadline […]

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Broadband priorities for outgoing and incoming Congress

As the year starts drawing to a close, so does the tenure of the 117th Congress. That body, under President Biden, passed $65 billion in broadband funding in the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA), plus billions more for broadband in the American Rescue Plan and Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. With that funding in […]

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Newscan: House approves omnibus spending bill, funding agencies through September

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T-Mobile is warehousing spectrum … and other specious arguments

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Preparing for BEAD broadband funding

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NG911 funding not part of current omnibus bill as deadline approaches

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Newscan: Lame-duck session nears end with no vote on FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

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AT&T exec Sambar discusses tests with AST SpaceMobile, notes FirstNet implications

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Newscan: Senate passes short-term funding bill, moving shutdown deadline to Dec. 23

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Tesla appears to be wobbling on camera-only autonomous-vehicle tech

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Newscan: Congress set to push back government-shutdown deadline to next week

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Broadband priorities for outgoing and incoming Congress

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AT&T wireless growth keyed by FirstNet—now provides 24,000 agencies with 4.4 million connections dlvr.it/ShY5qH

Report: Remote work causing offices to empty, but walkable cities still in high demand dlvr.it/ShXM7Z

AT&T FirstNet unleashes robotic dogs for emergency services dlvr.it/ShW7p8

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UK Home Office officially will cut ESN ties with Motorola Solutions in December dlvr.it/ShNjfN