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FirstNet Band 14 coverage serves about half of U.S. rural population, FirstNet Authority reports

About half the rural population within the U.S. is within the FirstNet coverage footprint for operations using 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority, according to the FirstNet Authority’s annual report to Congress that was released last week. Although the information in the report is about seven months old—reflecting the FirstNet Authority’s […]

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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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Seven types of data guiding COVID-19 decision-making as we move from response to recovery

The rate of spread of COVID-19 varies from state to state, with some successfully flattening the curve while others still await peak infection levels. As governors wrestle with how and when to begin reopening businesses and easing shelter-in-place orders, they must lean on reliable, accurate, and timely data to take decisive action that will ultimately […]

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Connectivity to prevent highway pileups

Cranfield University researchers in the UK are participating in a Multi-Car Collision Avoidance (MuCCA) research and development project. This project which aims to reduce the number of motorway pile-ups involving a number of vehicles. The university says the project is examining how to prevent or reduce multi-vehicle collisions with artificial intelligence (AI) and V2V communication […]

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NICE provides free Xpress digital-evidence platform to public safety during COVID-19 pandemic

NICE recently announced that its Investigate Xpress digital-evidence-management platform is available at no cost to public-safety entities wanting to gather and process evidence this year without the need for face-to-face interaction—a key characteristic in a period of social-distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Botz, director of global marketing for NICE, said this offering provides […]

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Newscan: Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine?

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine? In Jackson, Mississippi, AI-powered cough bots and COVID-19 maps fuel response Social-distancing-detecting ‘pandemic drones’ dumped over privacy concerns Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years AT&T slams FCC’s plans for 6 GHz band Elon Musk says […]

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FirstNet tops 1.3 million connections, 12,000 agencies, AT&T says

FirstNet supports more than 1.3 million connections across more than 12,000 agencies, according to figures supplied last week by AT&T, the FirstNet Authority’s nationwide contractor responsible for building the nationwide public-safety broadband network. AT&T provided the updated FirstNet numbers as part of the company’s report of earnings for the first quarter—the first reporting period impacted […]

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Why industrial-automation security should be a renewed focus

As industrial organizations grapple with COVID-19 fallout, automation has become an even hotter topic. Experts fear, however, that the acceleration of automation could drive unforeseen consequences for organizations that don’t focus on security. “When it comes to automation and industrial control systems (ICS), there is no doubt haste makes more than waste,” said Dan Miklovic, […]

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ESChat: Josh Lober discusses COVID-19 impact on PTT business

ESChat Josh Lober explains the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) company, in terms of internal operations and subscribing customers.

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With connected cars, zero trust is the best security advice

The road to fully autonomous vehicles has many obstacles but perhaps none more insidious than hacking. Cybersecurity experts say improvements have been made but there’s much work to be done to secure vehicles before and during production as well as years later once they’re on the road. McAfee recently made headlines by hacking a Tesla […]

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FirstNet Band 14 coverage serves about half of U.S. rural population, FirstNet Authority reports

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Motorola Solutions announces Safe Schools platform

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Seven types of data guiding COVID-19 decision-making as we move from response to recovery

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Connectivity to prevent highway pileups

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NICE provides free Xpress digital-evidence platform to public safety during COVID-19 pandemic

News

Newscan: Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine?

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FirstNet tops 1.3 million connections, 12,000 agencies, AT&T says

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Why industrial-automation security should be a renewed focus

Audio

ESChat: Josh Lober discusses COVID-19 impact on PTT business

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With connected cars, zero trust is the best security advice

Commentary

As communities grapple with budget shortfalls, how will online and digital taxation change?

U.S. sets up new open RAN group amid telecom slugfest with China

COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented challenges for ECCs, 911 centers

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