News LMR licensing activity maintained recent low levels during 2023 10th January 2024 Public-safety and business-industrial land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing continued near historically low levels during 2023 but did not establish any new records, according to figures available in the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. In the public-safety space, FCC officials received 3,029 LMR licensing applications during 2023, with 2,999 of them being granted as of today, […]
Partner content Wi-Fi 7 ready to hit the big time, org claims 8th January 2024 Wi-Fi 7 is ready for its close-up. Wi-Fi 7, the new (and much faster) version of the wireless standard that’s a prime candidate to support multi-gigabit broadband services, has opened up certification testing for a wave of new products, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced Monday. The certification milestone, announced in concert with this week’s CES 2024 […]
Partner content How state and local CIOs can push their cyber resilience plans forward in 2024 8th January 2024 From Dallas, Texas to Lowell, Mass., it’s been evident that in 2023, state and local governments have been prime targets for ransomware attacks and other bad actors. Now, as we look to the year ahead, the reality is this: cyber threats are worsening, the attack landscape is growing more complex and severe by the day, and adversaries are […]
Partner content DOE $70M grid security and resilience funding targets cybersecurity, wildfires, other risks 8th January 2024 Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday announced it will make up to $70 million available to public and private sector stakeholders, universities and the national laboratory system, to research new security and resilience technologies for the U.S. power sector. The funding opportunity will be managed by DOE’s Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response office […]
Partner content Airbus looks to acquire Atos cybersecurity unit for nearly $2 billion 8th January 2024 Aerospace giant Airbus and French IT services company Atos are opening negotiations for a potential sale of Atos’ Big Data and Security (BDS) business. Following a stock-boosting Dec. 15 leak to Reuters, in a Jan. 3 market update, Atos revealed that it had, in fact, received two letters of interest in BDS, with Airbus’ encompassing the entire […]
News NTIA seeks candidates to fill spots on the FirstNet Authority board 4th January 2024 At least four new members are scheduled to be named to the FirstNet Authority board by the end of the year, according to an announcement issued yesterday by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) seeking potential candidates to fill open positions on the board. People wanting to be considered by NTIA should submit their […]
Partner content Catching up on direct-to-cell in 2024: Testing, funding and stumbling 4th January 2024 The direct-to-cell sector didn’t seem to take much of a breather during the holidays, with players ranging from SpaceX to Lynk Global making waves throughout the latter days of December 2023 and the early days of January 2024. Some companies announced tests, some scored new funding, some argued for more favorable federal regulations, and some […]
Partner content T-Mobile kicks off 2024 with more spectrum and a stock rally 3rd January 2024 T-Mobile unwrapped two big presents during the holidays: It scored additional midband spectrum for its 5G network, and it enjoyed more attention from Wall Street investors. Together, the developments help give the company a better position heading into 2024. “While not a game changer, we view this … as a modest win for T-Mobile,” wrote […]
Partner content Here comes the AI phone 3rd January 2024 Smart devices have been the biggest single driver of mobile revenue for the past 15 years, so it makes sense to try to understand the new generation of AI phones. Analyst firm Canalys has forecast that AI-capable devices will account for up to around 5% of smartphones shipped in 2024 – that still means around […]
Partner content In cybersecurity and fashion, what’s old is new again 2nd January 2024 While distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and zero-day threats are nothing new in cybersecurity, they’re still happening regularly for a simple reason: They work. In early November 2023, OpenAI blamed a DDoS attack for intermittent ChatGPT issues, and one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks hit major internet companies in October. The same group of bad actors — Anonymous […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 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
