Audio Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard 5th March 2024 Lt. Col. Marcos Rogers of the Mississippi Army National Guard joins Verizon Frontline’s Mark Paff (senior director, business continuity and event management) and Earl Struble, associate director for the Crisis Response Team-South Region) to discuss the recent PATRIOT 24 exercise that is designed to simulate the rapid-recovery efforts that need to be executed during […]
Partner content CommScope won’t ‘sell assets on the cheap’ 4th March 2024 CommScope is continuing to evaluate alternatives, including asset sales, to help reduce the company’s $9 billion debt load. But execs said divesture discussions have yet to bear fruit, and stressed that CommScope won’t resort to a fire sale. “We do not intend to sell assets on the cheap,” CommScope EVP and CFO Kyle Lorentzen said […]
Partner content IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds 4th March 2024 IoT connectivity issues are causing significant financial losses and operational delays, a report from rSIM has found. According to the report’s findings, almost half of businesses (43%) said connectivity problems have caused “life-affecting changes” to either staff or customers, while a quarter said they have been hacked due to connectivity issues. Of the U.K. businesses […]
Partner content Unique aspects of data-incident response in local government 3rd March 2024 For years, private companies have struggled to protect the data of consumers against security incidents and cyberattacks by malicious threat actors. More recently, there has been a growing surge of data breaches impacting the public sector, and local governments face unique challenges in responding to such incidents. The triage and analysis required following the discovery […]
Partner content At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities 29th February 2024 MWC24 – BARCELONA – The wireless industry’s space race increasingly looks like a two-company contest between AT&T, partnering with AST SpaceMobile, and T-Mobile, linked up with SpaceX’s Starlink. The latter effort has gotten much more attention, thanks to Starlink’s enormous constellation of satellites that now includes direct-to-cell versions and also to Elon Musk’s outsized, no-inner-monologue presence on X. During MWC, Musk posted onto X […]
Partner content U.S. government expands role in software security 29th February 2024 The Biden administration continues to push for closer public-private partnerships to harden US information-technology infrastructure, calling on companies to shift to memory-safe programming languages and calling on the technical and academic communities to create better ways of measuring software security. This week, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report […]
News FirstNet Authority board, task force to assess AT&T outage, suggest potential prevention measures 29th February 2024 AT&T’s hours-long network outage that impacted FirstNet service last week will be discussed by the FirstNet Authority board during an open meeting next week, as well as the focus of a new task force created specifically to assess the incident and recommend strategies to help avoid a repeat in the future. FirstNet Authority Executive Director […]
Partner content SpaceX makes first social-media post using Starlink direct-to-cell satellites 29th February 2024 SpaceX has posted its first status on X (formerly Twitter) using Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell satellite network in space. “This post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space,” the company wrote on X. Musk re-shared the post, adding that no special equipment was used to make the status. Only a mobile phone and […]
News AT&T filing with SEC outlines new payment schedule to FirstNet Authority 29th February 2024 AT&T will pay more than $5.1 billion during the next five years to the FirstNet Authority, which plans to use this money to help fund the $8 billion commitment to enhance the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) that is being built and maintained by AT&T, according to the carrier’s recent filing with the SEC. AT&T […]
News AT&T CEO on outage: “We let down many” 28th February 2024 AT&T CEO John Stankey addressed the carrier’s massive Feb. 22 outage that impacted FirstNet and commercial service, stating in a letter to company employees that “we let down many of our customers” and apologizing, but the exact cause of the hours-long disruption remains murky. In the letter released on Sunday, Stankey noted that AT&T’s restoration […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024