Video AT&T: Mike Zeto highlights features of new public-private partnership with the city of San Jose 16th May 2019 Mike Zeto, AT&T’s vice president of IoT solutions and general manager of smart cities, discusses aspects of the carrier’s public-private agreement with the city of San Jose that was announced this week during the IoT World event in Santa Clara, Calif.
Video IoT World Hackathon: Father, daughter help team Smart Ag develop winning smart-farming solution 15th May 2019 Priya Kshirsagar (left) and her father, Sudhir Kshirsagar, of team Smart Ag talk about the smart-farming solution that they helped develop during a 48-hour period this week to win the hackathon contest conducted this week at the IoT World event in Santa Clara, Calif. The Smart Ag design would let farmers low-cost, low-power Internet […]
News Sonim Technologies’ IPO a tribute to public-safety vision for open-standards ecosystem, CEO says 10th May 2019 Ultra-rugged LTE device maker Sonim Technologies today began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, a step that reflects the burgeoning open-standards environment that is developing with the establishment of public-safety and critical-infrastructure broadband initiatives, according to Sonim CEO Bob Plaschke. “This is another milestone in a path that was driven by a lot of brave […]
Video Emil Olbrich: Now is a good time for public safety to learn about 5G 10th May 2019 Emil Olbrich, president of PrimeLime Consulting and vice president of network technologies for Signals Research Group, highlights some of the progress—and challenges—associated with early 5G deployments. One of the earliest proponents of public-safety LTE more than a decade ago, Olbrich says it may be some time before first responders will utilize 5G, but now is […]
News Backhaul problems, disjointed recovery efforts key causes of ‘unacceptable’ extended wireless outages after Hurricane Michael, FCC report says 10th May 2019 Many wireless customers in the Florida Panhandle ‘unnecessarily’ lacked communications for days in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael last fall, because some carriers lacked resilient backhaul and failed to coordinate restoration efforts with utilities, clean-up crews and other carriers, according to an FCC report released yesterday. “Three key factors—insufficiently resilient backhaul connectivity, inadequate reciprocal roaming […]
Video Kymeta: Ben Posthuma outlines how satellite service can help public safety, autonomous vehicles 9th May 2019 Ben Posthuma of Kymeta talks about the company’s satellite service, which delivers broadband signals to vehicles equipped with a flat antenna, as a complement to terrestrial 4G or 5G wireless broadband for public-safety or critical-infrastructure entities in rural locations today. In the future, Kymeta could serve as a similar connectivity complement to mass-market vehicles like […]
News FirstNet tops 600,000 connections, adds three flying COWs to deployable assets, according to AT&T 7th May 2019 More than 7,250 agencies have subscribed to 600,000-plus connections over the FirstNet system, which has been bolstered by three flying cell on wings (flying COWs) that are designed to provide deployable LTE coverage during emergency response efforts, FirstNet contractor AT&T announced today. Less than two weeks ago, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced on April 24 […]
News AT&T launches narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) as complement to LTE-M for Internet of Things connectivity 6th May 2019 AT&T recently launched narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) service to support the simplest sensors—typically using little bandwidth and power—with potential price targets of $5 per NB-IoT module and data plans of $5 per year, according to a company official. Internet of Things (IoT) pundits have long projected that billions of devices would be connected to fuel an […]
News Southern Linc offers ‘Basic MCPTT’ and ‘High Performance MCPTT,’ shuts down legacy iDEN system for LTE 30th April 2019 Southern Linc—the southeast U.S. regional carrier that also provides communications for the Southern Company utility—is leveraging its 800 MHz LTE network to provide two flavors of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service to customers, according to Southern Linc officials. Southern Linc was long known for its iDEN network, but the carrier recently completed a transition to LTE that […]
News Ohio entities seek to use ISSI to make first interoperable link between FirstNet and P25 systems from Harris, Tait 26th April 2019 Public-safety entities in the state of Ohio hope to begin testing an interoperability solution that is designed to link FirstNet push-to-talk service with Harris P25 systems—and possibly a Tait P25 network—by leveraging P25 Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) technology, according to officials involved in the project. Alan Close, owner of Cleveland Communications (CCI)—the Harris dealer […]
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