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Cost and COVID-19 hit driverless investment, Bosch says

Automakers had already been backing away from investing in higher levels of autonomous technology citing costs as the main barrier to market adoption. According to automotive supplier giant Bosch, this is now being compounded by growing uncertainty over how the Coronavirus fall-out will affect the ride-sharing, ride-hailing and car-sharing models that many had placed so […]

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Loon nabs partnership with AT&T, but not necessarily revenues

Loon – the Internet-from-balloons provider that sprung from Google’s R&D labs – announced a new partnership with AT&T. The companies’ agreement essentially paves the way for Loon to deploy its balloons more quickly for AT&T or other operators around the world. “Under the partnership, we have successfully integrated the Loon system with AT&T’s network. This […]

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Newscan: The miracle of the Internet not breaking during COVID-19 pandemic

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations The miracle of the Internet not breaking during COVID-19 pandemic Why didn’t COVID-19 break the Internet? The coronavirus pandemic is breaking the Internet Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security Cell towers in Canada attacked over COVID-19 conspiracy theories So far, 77 cell-phone towers have […]

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CBRS: Bob Plaschke outlines promising options to leverage 3.5 GHz spectrum

Bob Plaschke, a longtime advocate of wireless broadband technologies and former CEO of Sonim Technologies, describes potential use cases and capabilities for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum at 3.5 GHz to support enterprises’ private LTE systems delivering connectivity for a host of applications, from general Internet access to Internet of Things (IoT) […]

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COVID-19 economic impact could accelerate LMR-to-LTE shift, L3Harris CEO says

Economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic are projected to result in land-mobile-radio (LMR) growth this year dropping 10% this year and “could drive an accelerated shift from LMR to LTE,” L3Harris Technologies Chairman and CEO Bill Brown said today. L3Harris officials “felt very good” about the company’s LMT growth, which was “close to 20%” last […]

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

Telecom probably didn’t need another open RAN association, but it seems to have gained one anyway. In a low-key announcement, the Open RAN Policy Coalition introduced itself to the world today as the latest group advocating a more open approach to the construction of radio access networks. “Open” meaning no Huawei, of course. For as […]

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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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ESChat: Josh Lober talks hybrid LMR-LTE, deals with DoJ and TELUS

ESChat CEO Josh Lober highlights the benefits of hybrid systems that utilize both LMR and broadband push-to-talk solutions to deliver voice communications, as well multiple forms of interoperability. Lober also outlines ESChat’s recently announced contract with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the launching of push-to-talk service offered through TELUS Communications, one of […]

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Vendors tout private CBRS networks for COVID-19 treatments

Enterprise wireless specialist RF Connect has been championing the benefits of private networks on unlicensed spectrum by building demo CBRS networks to show to potential customers. When COVID-19 struck, the company was able to pivot those resources from demonstration to deployment. The live CBRS network is in Illinois, one of the states hit hardest by […]

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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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Cost and COVID-19 hit driverless investment, Bosch says

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Loon nabs partnership with AT&T, but not necessarily revenues

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Newscan: The miracle of the Internet not breaking during COVID-19 pandemic

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CBRS: Bob Plaschke outlines promising options to leverage 3.5 GHz spectrum

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COVID-19 economic impact could accelerate LMR-to-LTE shift, L3Harris CEO says

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

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

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ESChat: Josh Lober talks hybrid LMR-LTE, deals with DoJ and TELUS

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Vendors tout private CBRS networks for COVID-19 treatments

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Connectivity to prevent highway pileups

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

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