Partner content Verizon, EchoStar, Ericsson and others push for more CBRS power 11th November 2024 Some big 5G companies like Verizon, EchoStar and Ericsson want to increase the power of their transmissions in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band. They argue doing so will make the band more useful by extending the geographic range of CBRS signals. But higher power level limits could ruin the burgeoning cable and fixed wireless networks […]
Partner content Tech executives reassess IT resilience in CrowdStrike outage aftermath 10th November 2024 Technology executives reassessed their IT operational resilience in the wake of a global wave of costly systems outages caused by a faulty CrowdStrike security update in July. Most were not happy with what they found, according to a survey of 1,000 senior cloud architects and engineering executives conducted by Cockroach Labs and Wakefield Research in August and […]
Partner content Lynk shakes up leadership again with new CEO, CFO 8th November 2024 Satellite-direct-to-device provider Lynk Global today announced the appointments of Ramu Potorazu as CEO and Steven Fay as CFO to lead Lynk’s efforts to become a publicly listed company in the wake of a recent partnership with Slam, a special-purpose acquisition company led by former baseball star Alex Rodriguez. Potorazu has satellite-industry experience, having served as […]
Partner content AT&T snaps up T-Mobile’s unwanted midband spectrum from UScellular 8th November 2024 AT&T is taking its cut from the breakup of UScellular. The company on Thursday inked a deal to buy lowband 700MHz and midband 3.45GHz spectrum from UScellular in a deal worth $1.01 billion. That transaction follows Verizon’s announcement last month that it would buy $1 billion worth of UScellular’s spectrum in the 850MHz and AWS spectrum bands. And that […]
Partner content Nokia: No evidence so far that hackers breached company data 6th November 2024 Nokia is investigating an alleged cyberattack in which threat actors claim to have stolen sensitive internal data. However, the company says that so far there is no evidence that either its data or systems were affected by a breach. Known threat actor IntelBroker on Tuesday posted what it claimed is Nokia’s online internal data — including SSH […]
News LMR licensing activity growing in business-industrial sector, FCC data indicates 6th November 2024 Business-industrial land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity is tracking to reach its highest level in five years, while licensing for public-safety LMR appears to be at a level similar to recent years, according to figures from the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. With almost two months left in the year, the FCC has received 9,327 […]
Partner content Can automatic updates for critical infrastructure be trusted? 5th November 2024 In July, the industry witnessed one of the largest technology outages in recent history, with estimates of $5.4 billion in damages. When CrowdStrike distributed a Rapid Response Content Channel Update with an exception-handling logic flaw, it opened the door for constructive conversations about automatic updates — when to use them, when not to use them, whether they […]
Partner content Apple’s satellite ambitions get $1.1B bigger 4th November 2024 Apple plans to invest another $1.1 billion into satellite operator Globalstar. But the details and contours of that investment remain unclear. “The Updated Services Agreements provide that Customer [Apple] will make cash prepayments to the Company, including for approved capital expenditures in connection with the Extended MSS Network,” Globalstar disclosed in a new SEC filing. The […]
Partner content Xcel Energy unveils $45B capital plan as data-center pipeline nears 9 GW 4th November 2024 Xcel Energy plans to invest $45 billion in new generation, transmission and other projects over the next five years, President and CEO Bob Frenzel said Thursday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. The company has received 8,900 MW of requests from data center companies, but economic growth is driving just 22% of the total five-year spend, […]
Partner content To minimize AI’s cyber risks to energy infrastructure, start with the design phase 31st October 2024 A year ago, President Biden issued an executive order ambitiously aimed at “the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” The order attempts to set in motion the government agencies that must grapple with the reality of an AI revolution already in progress. Across a broad set of industries, AI posed poses an open […]
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? 3 24th March 2024
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