Partner content Rosenworcel warns Congress that not funding ACP will ‘cut families off’ 22nd June 2023 With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) set to run out of funding early next year, the importance of sustaining the program took center stage with House Democrats at an FCC oversight hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was the FCC’s first before the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee this year and touched on a range of […]
Partner content 2 more Apple zero-days exploited in ongoing iOS spy campaign 22nd June 2023 Apple has released emergency patches for two new zero-day vulnerabilities in its software that an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been using to deploy malware in an ongoing iOS spying campaign dubbed “Operation Triangulation.” Meanwhile on Wednesday, Kaspersky released a new report that provided additional details on the TriangleDB spyware implant used in the campaign, which […]
Partner content Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) remain a serious cybersecurity risk 22nd June 2023 As battery electric vehicles join the global fleet, questions of security have increasingly been raised, particularly in relation to how vulnerable they will make the electric infrastructure that fuels the cars and, in some cases, takes power from them. Warnings have already been sounded about the potential risks of charging but few of these of […]
Partner content Here comes the new satellite age 22nd June 2023 The new age of satellite has been creeping up on us for a while. Even so, it’s a surprise to realize how significant it is going to be for telecom. Over the next decade direct satellite services will likely bring broadband to hundreds of millions of rural users, become a key enabler of 6G and […]
News AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology 21st June 2023 AST SpaceMobile today announced that its satellite-direct-to-phone technology enabled unmodified smartphones to achieve download speeds greater than 10 Mbps during tests with the company’s BlueWalker 3 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) test satellite. Conducted in Hawaii, tests demonstrated initial download speeds transmitted from the BlueWalker 3 satellites reached 10.3 Mbps on “everyday, off-the-shelf smartphones,” according to an AST […]
News Healthcare, security among sectors that promise to benefit most from 5G, panelists say 21st June 2023 5G connectivity provides a promise of unique use cases that 4G cannot support, but many are just being realized or continue to await technological developments—notably, network slicing—to be real factors in the marketplace, according to panelists at the Big 5G Event conducted last month in Austin. Jodi Baxter, vice president of 5G and IoT connectivity […]
Partner content Deutsche Telekom boss prepared to defy EU and stick with Huawei 20th June 2023 Asked why he was still living in Europe, Timotheus Höttges (pictured above) had no quick response. The boss of Deutsche Telekom, Germany’s biggest telco, had just spent several minutes on a panel laying into regional policymakers and arguing that T-Mobile US, an American subsidiary, was the best and most innovative thing about his entire business. […]
Audio PSCR-FirstNet Authority: Officials highlight key features of new 5×5 event in San Diego 20th June 2023 Brianna Huettel, strategy and operations lead for Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR), and Jeremy Zollo, chief market engagement officer for the FirstNet Authority, talk about 5×5: The Public Safety Innovation Summit that will be conducted June 28-30 in San Diego. The event marks an evolution of the longtime PSCR Broadband Stakeholder conferences, incorporating discussions […]
Partner content Killnet threatens imminent SWIFT, world banking attacks 19th June 2023 The pro-Russian hacktivist collective known as Killnet claims to be working in concert with a resurgent form of the notorious ReVIL ransomware gang. The goal? To mount an attack on the Western financial system. The group is warning that attacks are imminent, as in the next day or so; but it’s unclear whether the threats […]
Partner content Telia is building 5G cell towers for the battlefield 19th June 2023 Tank behind her, a young woman dressed in combat fatigues sports an incongruous-looking pink smartphone on a muddy road somewhere in Ukraine. Named Dasha, she is a practitioner of BYOD (bring your own device), a phenomenon normally observed in the office rather than on the battlefield. At one time, her Ukrainian military superiors would probably […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 22nd April 2024
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