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Verizon, EchoStar, Ericsson and others push for more CBRS power

Some big 5G companies like Verizon, EchoStar and Ericsson want to increase the power of their transmissions in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band. They argue doing so will make the band more useful by extending the geographic range of CBRS signals. But higher power level limits could ruin the burgeoning cable and fixed wireless networks […]

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Tech executives reassess IT resilience in CrowdStrike outage aftermath

Technology executives reassessed their IT operational resilience in the wake of a global wave of costly systems outages caused by a faulty CrowdStrike security update in July. Most were not happy with what they found, according to a survey of 1,000 senior cloud architects and engineering executives conducted by Cockroach Labs and Wakefield Research in August and […]

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Ransomware presents a growing threat to vulnerable local governments

In the past, cities and counties were not a prime target for ransomware attacks, says Rahul Mahna, a partner who leads the Outsourced IT Services team at Eisner Advisory Group LLC. The company is a licensed independent CPA firm providing tax and business consulting services to their clients, which includes governments. Mahna has more than 20 years of experience […]

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Lynk shakes up leadership again with new CEO, CFO

Satellite-direct-to-device provider Lynk Global today announced the appointments of Ramu Potorazu as CEO and Steven Fay as CFO to lead Lynk’s efforts to become a publicly listed company in the wake of a recent partnership with Slam, a special-purpose acquisition company led by former baseball star Alex Rodriguez. Potorazu has satellite-industry experience, having served as […]

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AT&T snaps up T-Mobile’s unwanted midband spectrum from UScellular

AT&T is taking its cut from the breakup of UScellular. The company on Thursday inked a deal to buy lowband 700MHz and midband 3.45GHz spectrum from UScellular in a deal worth $1.01 billion. That transaction follows Verizon’s announcement last month that it would buy $1 billion worth of UScellular’s spectrum in the 850MHz and AWS spectrum bands. And that […]

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Nokia: No evidence so far that hackers breached company data

Nokia is investigating an alleged cyberattack in which threat actors claim to have stolen sensitive internal data. However, the company says that so far there is no evidence that either its data or systems were affected by a breach. Known threat actor IntelBroker on Tuesday posted what it claimed is Nokia’s online internal data — including SSH […]

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Schneider Electric investigating cyber intrusion after threat actor gains access to platform

Schneider Electric on Monday said it is investigating a cyber incident following claims by a suspected threat actor that it had gained access to company data. The incident involved “unauthorized access to one of our internal project execution tracking platforms, which is hosted within an isolated environment,” according to a spokesperson for the French multinational company. […]

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LMR licensing activity growing in business-industrial sector, FCC data indicates

Business-industrial land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity is tracking to reach its highest level in five years, while licensing for public-safety LMR appears to be at a level similar to recent years, according to figures from the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. With almost two months left in the year, the FCC has received 9,327 […]

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Can automatic updates for critical infrastructure be trusted?

In July, the industry witnessed one of the largest technology outages in recent history, with estimates of $5.4 billion in damages. When CrowdStrike distributed a Rapid Response Content Channel Update with an exception-handling logic flaw, it opened the door for constructive conversations about automatic updates — when to use them, when not to use them, whether they […]

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Apple’s satellite ambitions get $1.1B bigger

Apple plans to invest another $1.1 billion into satellite operator Globalstar. But the details and contours of that investment remain unclear. “The Updated Services Agreements provide that Customer [Apple] will make cash prepayments to the Company, including for approved capital expenditures in connection with the Extended MSS Network,” Globalstar disclosed in a new SEC filing. The […]

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Verizon, EchoStar, Ericsson and others push for more CBRS power

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Tech executives reassess IT resilience in CrowdStrike outage aftermath

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Ransomware presents a growing threat to vulnerable local governments

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Lynk shakes up leadership again with new CEO, CFO

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AT&T snaps up T-Mobile’s unwanted midband spectrum from UScellular

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Nokia: No evidence so far that hackers breached company data

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Schneider Electric investigating cyber intrusion after threat actor gains access to platform

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LMR licensing activity growing in business-industrial sector, FCC data indicates

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Can automatic updates for critical infrastructure be trusted?

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Apple’s satellite ambitions get $1.1B bigger

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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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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