Partner content Verizon, T-Mobile, Nokia get noisy on network slicing and net neutrality 10th March 2024 Network slicing arose as a major topic at this year’s big MWC Barcelona confab. Companies ranging from Ericsson to Telefonica to Nokia promised to create slices of their network that sport “enhanced performance characteristics.” However, many of those same companies are warning that a renewed push toward net neutrality in the US could stymie such […]
News UK Home Office hopes to name key ESN vendor in August, official says 8th March 2024 A new user-services vendor to replace Motorola Solutions on the Emergency Services Network (ESN) public-safety broadband initiative could be under contract in August, according to a UK Home Office official who declined to provide a timeline for the broader ESN network, which is supposed to replace the Airwave TETRA system. Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme […]
Partner content EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about ‘ability to continue as a going concern’ 7th March 2024 The financial situation at EchoStar/Dish Network looks dim, as the newly combined entity issued an ominous warning via this SEC filing that raises “substantial doubt” that the company can continue as a going concern. EchoStar and Dish merged last year, combining Dish’s satellite, streaming, retail wireless business and emerging 5G network with EchoStar’s satellite-focused business. The move was […]
Partner content Would utilities have interest in T-Mobile’s 800MHz auction? 7th March 2024 T-Mobile officials said the company will finish auctioning a chunk of nationwide 800MHz spectrum sometime this fall. But there may not be much demand for that kind of spectrum. “I have a hard time seeing who else would necessarily step up,” Brian Goemmer, with spectrum-tracking company Spektrum Metrics, told Light Reading. Other industry executives, who […]
News Motorola Solutions CEO Brown: ‘LMR is here to stay’ 6th March 2024 Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown expressed optimism about the company’s future in the critical-communications space, specifically noting the ongoing strength in its land-mobile-radio (LMR) offerings and growth in the command-center arena, as well as video security and access control. Speaking at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference on Tuesday, Brown cited the company’s […]
Audio Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard 5th March 2024 Lt. Col. Marcos Rogers of the Mississippi Army National Guard joins Verizon Frontline’s Mark Paff (senior director, business continuity and event management) and Earl Struble, associate director for the Crisis Response Team-South Region) to discuss the recent PATRIOT 24 exercise that is designed to simulate the rapid-recovery efforts that need to be executed during […]
Partner content CommScope won’t ‘sell assets on the cheap’ 4th March 2024 CommScope is continuing to evaluate alternatives, including asset sales, to help reduce the company’s $9 billion debt load. But execs said divesture discussions have yet to bear fruit, and stressed that CommScope won’t resort to a fire sale. “We do not intend to sell assets on the cheap,” CommScope EVP and CFO Kyle Lorentzen said […]
Partner content IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds 4th March 2024 IoT connectivity issues are causing significant financial losses and operational delays, a report from rSIM has found. According to the report’s findings, almost half of businesses (43%) said connectivity problems have caused “life-affecting changes” to either staff or customers, while a quarter said they have been hacked due to connectivity issues. Of the U.K. businesses […]
Partner content At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities 29th February 2024 MWC24 – BARCELONA – The wireless industry’s space race increasingly looks like a two-company contest between AT&T, partnering with AST SpaceMobile, and T-Mobile, linked up with SpaceX’s Starlink. The latter effort has gotten much more attention, thanks to Starlink’s enormous constellation of satellites that now includes direct-to-cell versions and also to Elon Musk’s outsized, no-inner-monologue presence on X. During MWC, Musk posted onto X […]
News FirstNet Authority board, task force to assess AT&T outage, suggest potential prevention measures 29th February 2024 AT&T’s hours-long network outage that impacted FirstNet service last week will be discussed by the FirstNet Authority board during an open meeting next week, as well as the focus of a new task force created specifically to assess the incident and recommend strategies to help avoid a repeat in the future. FirstNet Authority Executive Director […]
FirstNet Authority reauthorization needed as public-safety-driven network evolution proceeds 16th March 2024