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Sorond named NextNav’s CEO to pursue location services, 5G

Mariam Sorond, a wireless executive who previously worked at companies including VMware, CableLabs and Dish Network, will take over the CEO role at NextNav, the company announced. “Having devoted my career to advancing and commercializing innovation in technology, I am thrilled to continue this journey at the helm of NextNav,” Sorond said in a release. “I […]

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Crown Castle’s fiber and small cell business under fire – again

Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor firm, is taking aim at Crown Castle again, arguing the company needs to overhaul its management and potentially put its fiber business up for sale. Importantly, Elliott said it now owns roughly $2 billion in Crown Castle stock. That’s double what the company owned in 2020 when it embarked on […]

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Can CommScope avert bankruptcy?

Times are tough for many cable tech and telecom suppliers these days. But they have been especially tough on CommScope, which has seen its share price plummet amid a slowdown in operator spending as customers try to melt down inventory that was built up when the pandemic fueled supply chain constraints. Amid those challenges, CommScope is also […]

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75% of companies plan to cut office space in 2024

Dive Brief: Seventy-five percent of businesses surveyed plan to reduce their office square footage in 2024, nearly 30% more than in 2022, according to a 2023 office space report from workspace platform provider Robin. However, 88% of the companies surveyed said they are mandating that employees work a certain number of days onsite — up nearly […]

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UK Home Office targets ESN system buildout finish by 2024 year end, Lot 2 award next year

United Kingdom (UK) Home Office officials believe most of the cell sites—also known as masts—necessary for the Emergency Service Network (ESN) will be completed by the end of the next year, according to a report filed with a Parliament committee. This ESN coverage projection was noted in the system progress update provided in response to […]

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U.S. government warns on 5G network-slicing security

The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published a document that provides a detailed look at network slicing and the security threats the technology may face in the future. “This guidance – created by the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), a public-private cross-sector working group led by the […]

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Progress on Release 18 features continues at June 3GPP Plenary meetings; Release 19 remains on track

The 3GPP Plenary meetings took place June 12-16, 2023, in Taipei, Taiwan. The Technical Specification Group (TSG) reports below highlight solid progress on Release 18 (R18) features of interest for public safety, including the completion of the architecture (stage 2) and the steady development on the protocol work (stage 3). The Plenary meetings also included […]

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Rising insurance costs could force apartment sales, threaten new development

As rents have moderated, apartment owners have been hit with many cost increases over the last year. Property taxes have gone up. Utility and labor costs have jumped. And that doesn’t take into account the potential millions of extra dollars needed to pay debt service for floating-rate loans. Add on insurance costs that have jumped […]

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UK public-safety agencies caught in middle of much-delayed proposed Airwave-ESN transition

Costs associated with the UK Home Office’s failure to deliver the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN) as a replacement for the TETRA-based Airwave system owned by Motorola Solutions should not be borne solely by public-safety agencies, according to the head of a Parliament committee overseeing the ESN project. ESN was supposed to be completed in […]

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Doubts grow over viability of UK’s LTE-based ESN

The problems encountered by the UK’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) have been well documented, but it seems that certain long-time observers of the troubled system are now daring to think the unthinkable: could it be that the ESN will never in fact become a reality, at least in its present form? Originally heralded as a […]

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Sorond named NextNav’s CEO to pursue location services, 5G

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Crown Castle’s fiber and small cell business under fire – again

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Can CommScope avert bankruptcy?

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75% of companies plan to cut office space in 2024

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UK Home Office targets ESN system buildout finish by 2024 year end, Lot 2 award next year

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U.S. government warns on 5G network-slicing security

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Progress on Release 18 features continues at June 3GPP Plenary meetings; Release 19 remains on track

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Rising insurance costs could force apartment sales, threaten new development

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UK public-safety agencies caught in middle of much-delayed proposed Airwave-ESN transition

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Doubts grow over viability of UK’s LTE-based ESN

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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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Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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