News AT&T claims LTE coverage edge, FirstNet build more than 99% done 27th March 2023 AT&T claims a 250,000-square-mile coverage advantage and that the planned five-year deployment of the FirstNet public-safety broadband network operating on the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority is more than 99% complete as a contractual deadline approaches this week. AT&T—the contractor responsible for building and maintaining the FirstNet public-safety broadband system—made […]
News Verizon Frontline supports U.S. Forest Service efforts against wildfires 27th March 2023 Verizon Frontline increased its support of entities responding to wildland fires during 2022, particularly the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), which accounted for more than half of this activity by the carrier’s Crisis Response Team, according to the carrier. Cory Davis, Verizon’s assistant vice president for public safety, said that Verizon Frontline provided communications support to […]
Partner content Autonomous-vehicle consequences could include more traffic 27th March 2023 Most discussions about driverless, autonomous cars, have led to claims that they will help reduce congestion. Not so, says the RAC Foundation. It cites a UK government report which believes the opposite is true. Claiming that driverless cars could increase congestion by 85% by 2060. Presently, it’s thought that drivers lose more than 80 hours […]
Partner content Tesla Model 3 hacked in less than 2 minutes at Pwn2Own contest 26th March 2023 Researchers from France-based pen-testing firm Synacktiv demonstrated two separate exploits against the Tesla Model 3 this week at the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver. The attacks gave them deep access into subsystems controlling the vehicle’s safety and other components. One of the exploits involved executing what is known as a time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTTOU) attack on Tesla’s Gateway energy […]
Partner content SES: JP Hemingway on satellites’ role in the digital divide, D2D and disasters 25th March 2023 WASHINGTON – At last week’s Satellite 2023 show, one of the topics on everyone’s mind was the future of direct-to-device (D2D) communications. But at least one global satellite operator, SES, is taking a wait-and-see approach. “We’re watching that space really carefully. We’re not active in it today,” said SES Chief Strategy Officer JP Hemingway in a […]
News House members introduce $15 billion NG911 funding bill 25th March 2023 Key U.S. House members introduced bipartisan legislation that would provide $15 billion in federal funding to support 911 centers nationwide as they make the transition from legacy technology to an IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) platform. Standalone legislation that had not been assigned a bill number as of Friday night, the “Next Generation 9-1-1 Act of […]
Audio ADRF: Sun Kim discusses company’s new hybrid in-building wireless solution 25th March 2023 Sun Kim, ADRF’s director of product engineering, talks about the FiRe-78-8-U, the company’s channelized 700/800 MHz repeater with a built-in and fiber DAS head end in a single unit. Each unit has been certified as meeting the UL 2524, second edition, standard and supports as many as 8 remote units. IWCE attendees can learn […]
Partner content U.S. cell towers and small cells: By the numbers 25th March 2023 The Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) recently published perhaps the most definitive look at the wireless infrastructure landscape in the US, showing 142,100 cell towers and 452,200 outdoor small cell nodes across the country at the end of last year. Because WIA’s report segments infrastructure by type, it offers a clearer picture of the 5G marketplace […]
Partner content Verizon, NTT among service providers narrowing private 5G focus 24th March 2023 While private 5G network hype hasn’t slowed down, service providers are starting to narrow their focus as some enterprise verticals are easier to enter than others. For example, manufacturing is frequently touted as a use case for private 5G, but Omdia analysts have said manufacturing is historically slower to adopt new technology. “The verticals where companies are […]
Partner content Report: Technology is encouraging unprecedented collaboration in local-government organizations 24th March 2023 From the way people communicate to daily work norms, technology and other drivers are encouraging unprecedented collaboration in local governments, disintegrating walls that have traditionally kept organizations siloed. A new report from Deloitte predicts a number of trends within government centered around this shift. “This year, we have one overarching theme to the trends, which is […]
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