News Florida agencies seek clarity on LMR system amid tightening timelines 12th March 2020 Florida state officials indicate that they are talking with L3Harris about extending the statewide LMR contract, while at least one state agency has expressed concerns that the aging network deal is due to expire in 17 months, with no publicly stated long-term replacement plan and state legislators scheduled to end their annual session tomorrow. Almost […]
News Shocker! Verizon was the big spender in FCC’s millmeter-wave auction 12th March 2020 Verizon spent the most money of any participant in the FCC’s biggest-ever millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum auction. The operator spent roughly $1.6 billion for a total of 4,940 spectrum licenses across the country. AT&T was a close second, however, spending a total of around $1.2 billion on 3,267 spectrum licenses. T-Mobile – which was widely expected […]
News 5G will see C-V2X explosion … maybe 12th March 2020 An automotive research body is predicting an explosion in C-V2X capability with the roll-out of 5G. However, the statement announcing a study by ABI Research based on industry opinions, does make the sweeping assumption that 5G, which requires many times more aerials than the existing 4G networks, will have a far superior coverage. That’s somewhat […]
News FirstNet buildout 80% complete, serves 1.2 million subscribers, AT&T exec says 12th March 2020 AT&T’s contracted FirstNet deployment of LTE equipment operating on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum is 80% complete—a year ahead of schedule—and the overall public-safety broadband system serves 1.2 million subscribers and more than 10,000 public-safety entities, an AT&T executive said this week. AT&T Chief Financial Officer (CFO) John Stephens made the statements during the Deutsche […]
News Kymeta unveils new antenna, plans to offer hybrid satellite-cell connectivity 11th March 2020 Kymeta this week announced the commercial availability of its new u8 mobile antenna platform—a software-defined solution supporting satellite connections throughout the Ku-band and cellular LTE service—that lets the company offer an always-on hybrid connectivity bundle, starting at a price of $999 per month. Bill Marks, Kymeta’s chief strategy officer, said the company hopes to make […]
News Newscan: Coronavirus could be a boon for telemedicine, as health industry hopes to keep ‘worried well’ out of the hospital 10th March 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Coronavirus could be a boon for telemedicine, as health industry hopes to keep ‘worried well’ out of the hospital With 290 million kids out of school, coronavirus is putting online learning to the test 5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable Text-to-911 […]
Partner content Verizon, AT&T withdraw from smart-city efforts 10th March 2020 Verizon and AT&T no longer have high-profile executives dedicated to smart city operations. And both have largely folded their smart city efforts into other business units. Specifically, Verizon’s VP of Smart Communities, Mrinalini (Lani) Ingram, left the company in September, and Verizon’s smart city efforts have been moved under Maggie Hallbach, head of Verizon’s Public Sector […]
Partner content Huawei’s ’18-month lead’ in 5G is telecom’s most spurious claim 9th March 2020 Ever since Huawei became public-enemy number one in the eyes of top US officials, stories have been circulating about its huge technology lead over rivals: Eighteen months is one repeated estimate of its head start over other companies developing 5G products. This would be a remarkable achievement. Twenty years ago, Huawei was derided as a […]
Audio TCCA: Tony Gray discusses organization’s TETRA history, work toward LTE future 9th March 2020 As TCCA celebrates its 25th anniversary, TCCA CEO Tony Gray talks about the organization’s support of the development of TETRA—the LMR standard for public-safety agencies in Europe and many other parts of the world—as well its crucial role in helping get the 3GPP standards body to create public-safety standards within LTE technology. As public-safety […]
News FirstNet suffers data-service outage in southeast U.S. 6th March 2020 Data service for some FirstNet users was interrupted Thursday morning, but the issue was resolved, according to FirstNet contractor AT&T, which indicated that it is investigating the cause of the outage. “Early this morning, data service was affected for some customers in the Southeast region,” according to an AT&T statement provided to IWCE’s Urgent Communications. […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 22nd April 2024
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