Partner content UK’s LTE-based ESN still getting red marks over delays 3rd May 2023 A little under two years ago, the UK’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) was already in trouble. Well over budget and late by several years, the project has been overhauled a number of times and those responsible have been admonished on numerous occasions by oversight bodies such as the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the […]
Partner content Viasat steps toward global coverage with launch of 1-terabit satellite 3rd May 2023 Viasat’s plans to provide global broadband coverage took a step forward Sunday night with the launch of the first of three high-capacity ViaSat-3 satellites. The ViaSat-3 Americas satellite launched Sunday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The satellite is set to deploy its solar arrays and make […]
Partner content Improving the competitiveness of U.S. smart cities and counties 3rd May 2023 In my last article in this journal, “Building smart cities and counties with the Infrastructure Act,” I recommended that the funding available from the Infrastructure Act presented an opportunity for U.S. city and county jurisdictions to ramp up their smart city/smart county programs. At that time I noted that historically the U.S. lags far behind […]
News UK looks to France for ideas to complete LTE-based ESN for first responders 3rd May 2023 After spending most of the past decade as the European leader in pursuit of public-safety broadband communications, United Kingdom (UK) officials hope new initiatives in France and elsewhere can help inform a better approach that will allow the much-delayed Emergency Services Network (ESN) to be completed. Simon Ricketts, chair of the UK Home Office Independent […]
Partner content Iridium CEO touts autos as another D2D opportunity 27th April 2023 With interest in phone-to-satellite communications at an all-time high, the CEO of satellite operator Iridium teased investors that the technology could migrate to other mobile gadgets in the future. “We also see additional opportunities in the automotive industry as well as for applications in the government sector, and expect to eventually be relevant in other […]
News Carrizzo named as FirstNet Authority board chair 27th April 2023 U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo today announced Chief Richard Carrizzo as the FirstNet Authority board’s chair. Carrizzo is first public-safety practitioner to lead the organization’s board and the sixth person overall to fill the role. Carrizzo—the fire chief for the Southern Platte Fire Protection District in the Kansas City, Mo., area—initially was appointed to […]
Partner content Emergency alerts could impact IoT devices 27th April 2023 The U.K. tested its emergency alert system this week, with an alarm sent to mobile devices across the country in the first-ever nationwide test, which some say could disrupt connected devices. The test, however, was not entirely successful, with many reporting they received the alert late or not at all. In addition, some have voiced […]
Partner content Metaverse version of the Dark Web could be nearly impenetrable 27th April 2023 RSA CONFERENCE 2023 – San Francisco – As the metaverse takes shape over the coming years, many of the security issues afflicting cyberspace will begin to spill over into virtual space as well. One of the biggest of these threats will be the emergence of a new “darkverse,” where criminals will be able to operate with greater impunity […]
Partner content After 5G hangover, there’s not much telco love for 6G 27th April 2023 Every ten years, after lots of noisy hook-ups in darkened rooms under the supervisory eye of standards bodies like the 3GPP, the global telecom industry gives birth to a new wailing generation of mobile technology. For anyone who’s been hibernating this decade, we’re currently about three or four years into the fifth of these generations […]
News AST SpaceMobile says it makes first satellite-direct-to-phone voice calls 26th April 2023 AST SpaceMobile today announced that it completed the first two-way voice calls via satellite-direct-to-phone connections during tests to unmodified cellular devices—a breakthrough claim in the nascent satellite-direct-to-phone arena, which previously has been limited to text-based applications. Using its BlueWalker 3 low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite, AST SpaceMobile completed the first satellite-direct-to-phone voice call from Midland, Texas, area—the […]
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
