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T-Mobile’s CEO explains the company’s new private 5G strategy

T-Mobile on Monday took the wraps off its new private wireless networking offerings, and the company’s CEO spoke about it at length during an investor event. “CIOs everywhere are interested in this topic right now,” T-Mobile’s Mike Sievert said Monday at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference. “And they’re interested in it for a reason. […]

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The private-wireless networking opportunity shouldn’t stay too private

Everyone is excited about the market for private wireless networking. And that’s no surprise: It affords all the companies that cut their teeth building big, public 4G and 5G networks the chance to leverage that work into the enterprise space – where margins might be much more attractive. Moreover, it could ultimately grow into a […]

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5G proponents fret over Biden’s fiber fancy

The US government on Friday released some guidelines on how US states should dole out $42.5 billion for broadband services in rural areas. “Thanks to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Americans across the country will no longer be held back by a lack of high-speed Internet access,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo declared in a statement. However, those […]

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Motorola Solutions continues buying spree with Videotec acquisition

Motorola Solutions yesterday announced that it has acquired Videotec—a Schio, Italy-based maker of rugged video-security cameras—to expand the manufacturing and design capabilities of its Pelco brand of video-security cameras. Videotec is the fourth company that Motorola Solutions has bought in the last 10 weeks, following the acquisitions of Ava Security and TETRA Ireland in March, […]

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Artemis returns with private pCell strategy

Startup Artemis Networks is back. The company is still pushing its pCell technology with CEO Steve Perlman at the helm. It is also touting a distribution partnership with Federated Wireless, a real-world deployment at the SAP Center sports stadium in San Jose and high-profile support from former Apple CEO John Sculley and financial analyst Craig […]

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FirstNet Authority board commits to first in-building investment

FirstNet Authority board members this week voted to make a multimillion-dollar investment that is designed to extend the coverage of FirstNet—the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T—inside public-safety buildings and other structures. FirstNet Authority Chair Stephen Benjamin described the in-building resolution as an “exciting investment,” and the measure was approved unanimously during […]

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NextNav: Dan Hight talks GeoComm partnership, Z-axis location for 911

Dan Hight, NextNav’s vice president of business development and partnership, discusses the significance of the company’s new partnership with GeoComm, which plans to integrate the vertical-location (Z-axis) information into its Public Safety Location Intelligence platform when callers dial 911 from inside a building when seeking help during an emergency. This 911 Z-axis solution from […]

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CommScope downgraded for heavy debt load, ongoing supply-chain concerns

CommScope is a “good” company with a plan for the future, but the supplier remains under pressure by persistent supply chain constraints coupled by a heavy debt load. That’s a summation from Raymond James, which announced Monday it had downgraded CommScope shares to “underperform” from “market perform” ahead of the company’s Q1 2022 results. That […]

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Power of edge computing drives real-time impact of IoT initiatives, IWCE keynote speakers say

LAS VEGAS—Cloud computing with centralized processing has transformed the way enterprise and government agencies do business, but many “smart” initiatives benefit greatly by leveraging compute power on the edge of the network, lowering latency and improving the ability avoid problems in real time, according to IWCE 2022 keynote speakers. Qualcomm probably is best known for […]

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AT&T calls for LMR-like hardening, coverage for FirstNet in-building systems

LAS VEGAS—AT&T supports the notion that in-building systems supporting first-responder communications on FirstNet should meet public-safety-grade requirements for coverage and resiliency, but questions remain about the business model for building owners that are expected to provide most—if not all—of the funding. Steve Devine, AT&T’s director of public-safety policy and strategy for FirstNet, said that in-building […]

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T-Mobile’s CEO explains the company’s new private 5G strategy

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The private-wireless networking opportunity shouldn’t stay too private

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5G proponents fret over Biden’s fiber fancy

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Motorola Solutions continues buying spree with Videotec acquisition

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Artemis returns with private pCell strategy

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FirstNet Authority board commits to first in-building investment

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NextNav: Dan Hight talks GeoComm partnership, Z-axis location for 911

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CommScope downgraded for heavy debt load, ongoing supply-chain concerns

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Power of edge computing drives real-time impact of IoT initiatives, IWCE keynote speakers say

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AT&T calls for LMR-like hardening, coverage for FirstNet in-building systems

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LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

Partnership and collaboration must be the foundation for emergency communications

FirstNet success means no hypothetical ‘shots’ need to be fired, Swenson says

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