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The shine begins to wear off 5G private wireless

Verizon had high hopes for private wireless networking. The company had predicted that by now it would be well on its way to making billions of dollars from the sale of custom 4G and 5G networks dedicated exclusively to its enterprise customers. Indeed, during 2021 Verizon execs pegged the total addressable market for private wireless at around […]

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NATE: Todd Schlekeway highlights organization’s safety, legislative initiatives

Todd Schlekeway, executive director of NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, discusses many of NATE’s planned activities for 2023, including a legislative visit to Capitol Hill in May, safety/training initiatives, and a broader release of the Vertical Freedom documentary that focuses on the lives of tower climbers in the communication arena.

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AT&T boasts of core ‘white box’ success in 5G, fiber push

AT&T said it has now migrated more than 52% of all of its production traffic onto next-generation “white box” core routers running on products from the likes of Broadcom and DriveNets. The company said its move to such “open” systems has helped its aggressive 5G and fiber expansions. “We announced the next-gen open disaggregated core routing […]

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AT&T wireless growth keyed by FirstNet—now provides 24,000 agencies with 4.4 million connections

AT&T this week reported that FirstNet ended 2022 supporting more than 24,000 public-safety agencies with “about” 4.4 million connections, including 377,000 connections that were added during the last three months of 2022—a total that represents more than half of the carrier’s post-paid wireless growth for the quarter. AT&T officials released these figures in conjunction with […]

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AT&T FirstNet unleashes robotic dogs for emergency services

AT&T is releasing robotic hounds from Ghost Robotics as part of the service provider’s FirstNet emergency responder service. In a blog, AT&T VP Lance Spencer explained that the robotic dogs will be connected to AT&T’s network and deployed for public safety, defense, federal and state agencies, local police and fire departments, and commercial customers. “Network-connected robotic dogs can deliver a […]

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How 5G is making cities safer, smarter, and more efficient

It’s a scenario we’ve all experienced: an ambulance with a blaring siren racing against time to get a person in medical distress to a hospital through traffic. What we don’t see is 5G connectivity enabling paramedics to communicate with hospital staff via video conference and coordinate care in real-time before arriving at the emergency room. […]

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MCPTT interworking for critical communications

The goal of mission-critical communication systems is to minimize the response time of first responders in emergency situations across several agencies. A dedicated push-to-talk button offers an efficient mechanism that simplifies the speaker-to-listener process to a minimum. This feature is useful when coordinating large group activities and to enable the instant flow of tactical status […]

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UK Home Office officially cuts ESN ties with Motorola Solutions, but transition work still needed

United Kingdom (UK) Home Office and Motorola Solutions officially agreed to terminate their working relationship regarding the Emergency Services Network (ESN), although Motorola Solutions will continue to provide “termination-assistance services” for the project at least through December. Information about the termination agreement was published on the Home Office website on Jan. 13, almost a month […]

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Ericsson feels the squeeze as big customers slash 5G spending

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm is known to be a fan of ice hockey, where players are routinely pulverized against the sideboards and whacked with sticks. It seems fitting given the share of painful blows that his own company has suffered in the last year. From US fines over a bribery scandal in Iraq to write-downs […]

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FCC approves new 4.9 GHz rules for public safety, with secondary non-public-safety use

FCC commissioners this week unanimously agreed on new rules for 50 MHz of 4.9 GHz spectrum, establishing a nationwide framework with a single band manager but one that is designed to let individual public-safety licensees retain local control over operations in the band, including support of 5G connectivity. Wednesday’s release of 4.9 GHz rules represent […]

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The shine begins to wear off 5G private wireless

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NATE: Todd Schlekeway highlights organization’s safety, legislative initiatives

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AT&T boasts of core ‘white box’ success in 5G, fiber push

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AT&T wireless growth keyed by FirstNet—now provides 24,000 agencies with 4.4 million connections

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AT&T FirstNet unleashes robotic dogs for emergency services

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How 5G is making cities safer, smarter, and more efficient

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MCPTT interworking for critical communications

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UK Home Office officially cuts ESN ties with Motorola Solutions, but transition work still needed

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Ericsson feels the squeeze as big customers slash 5G spending

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FCC approves new 4.9 GHz rules for public safety, with secondary non-public-safety use

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How 5G is making cities safer, smarter, and more efficient

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