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Things get tense between Dish and T-Mobile

Is the relationship between Dish Network and T-Mobile starting to sour? Based on a new filing with the FCC, that certainly appears to be the case. In the filing, Dish complained that T-Mobile inappropriately used Dish’s spectrum as a marketing ploy during COVID-19 lockdowns. “Since T-Mobile gained temporary access to Dish’s 600MHz spectrum on March 15, […]

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IWCE: Stephanie McCall highlights features of Virtual Connections portal

Stephanie McCall, show director of IWCE, talks about the new Virtual Connections portal, which can be found at https://virtualconnections.iwceexpo.com/. This portal provides visitors with free access to two weeks of daily webinars–available for live participation, as well as on-demand viewing–and a hearty choice of multimedia information about the Virtual Connections sponsors. The first live webinar […]

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COVID-19 pandemic having mixed impacts on in-building projects for public-safety communications

Most aspects of the economy have slowed or halted completely in the wake of measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but the pandemic is resulting in certain in-building communications projects being accelerated, according to an official at in-building solutions provider ADRF. Dennis Burns, ADRF’s director of public safety, said the company is very busy […]

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CBRS: Bob Plaschke outlines promising options to leverage 3.5 GHz spectrum

Bob Plaschke, a longtime advocate of wireless broadband technologies and former CEO of Sonim Technologies, describes potential use cases and capabilities for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum at 3.5 GHz to support enterprises’ private LTE systems delivering connectivity for a host of applications, from general Internet access to Internet of Things (IoT) […]

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Motorola Solutions announces Safe Schools platform

Motorola Solutions this week announced Safe Schools, a platform that leverages multiple technologies—voice, data, analytics and video—into an integrated solution that is designed to make educational campuses safer and operationally more efficient. John Zidar, senior vice president of Motorola Solutions’ global enterprise and channels business, said many technology components within Safe Schools, but the new […]

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Vendors tout private CBRS networks for COVID-19 treatments

Enterprise wireless specialist RF Connect has been championing the benefits of private networks on unlicensed spectrum by building demo CBRS networks to show to potential customers. When COVID-19 struck, the company was able to pivot those resources from demonstration to deployment. The live CBRS network is in Illinois, one of the states hit hardest by […]

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Return on 5G infrastructure investment remains a puzzle

Despite the initial optimism surrounding 5G, achieving return on investment on the technology remains uncertain for telecommunications operators. As a result, the prospect that t5G connectivity will spur a flurry of novel IoT applications will almost certainly be delayed. While deployments are steadily increasing, so are telcos’ costs. Although increasing cellular traffic underscores the need for […]

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School of hard knocks: 911 operations in the COVID-19 era

Boxer and pop philosopher Mike Tyson once opined that “everyone has a plan—until they get punched in the mouth.” Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has punched the public-safety/emergency-response community squarely in the mouth—and hard. But the community’s resiliency and creativity is enabling it to fight back equally hard, and the lessons being learned through the […]

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MCPTT-based FirstNet PTT a ‘game-changer,’ potential LMR replacement, N.J. police captain says

FirstNet PTT service—provided by AT&T and built on the 3GPP mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard—delivers the performance that public safety needs and can be an LMR alternative for some agencies, according to the captain of a New Jersey police department that conducted a beta trial of the new offering. “I think it’s really going to be a […]

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Edge computing, 5G and AI — the perfect storm for government systems

On today’s government networks, the real action is at the edge. This includes establishing edge-based processing power, with onboard analytics, via systems that often are augmented by artificial intelligence (AI). In many cases, these systems are housed in modular containers that serve as their own datacenters. Some are about the size of a typical minivan, […]

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Things get tense between Dish and T-Mobile

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IWCE: Stephanie McCall highlights features of Virtual Connections portal

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COVID-19 pandemic having mixed impacts on in-building projects for public-safety communications

Audio

CBRS: Bob Plaschke outlines promising options to leverage 3.5 GHz spectrum

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Motorola Solutions announces Safe Schools platform

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Vendors tout private CBRS networks for COVID-19 treatments

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Return on 5G infrastructure investment remains a puzzle

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School of hard knocks: 911 operations in the COVID-19 era

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MCPTT-based FirstNet PTT a ‘game-changer,’ potential LMR replacement, N.J. police captain says

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Edge computing, 5G and AI — the perfect storm for government systems

Commentary

September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up