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Globalstar hints at life after the iPhone

Globalstar’s top executive said the company is in “deal mode” now, and is working to drum up more business beyond its landmark agreement with Apple for the iPhone. “So stay tuned,” said Globalstar’s top executive Jay Monroe during his company’s recent quarterly conference call, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript. Globalstar has already made progress in […]

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Rogers Communications announces satellite-direct-to-phone deal with Lynk Global

Canada-based cellular carrier Rogers Communications recently announced a deal with Lynk Global to provide satellite-direct-to-phone service beginning next year that is designed to ensure that Rogers subscribers maintain communications throughout the country, even when they are outside terrestrial-network coverage. Lynk Global CEO Charles Miller said that his company has similar agreements with other carriers around […]

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UK’s ESN watches on as LTE public safety networks proliferate

It was recently suggested that the UK’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) had encountered so many difficulties along the way in part because of one simple fact: it was ahead of its time. At least, that was the suggestion of Simon Ricketts, a senior technology adviser and chair of the Independent Technical Assurance Panel at the […]

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Andrew Seybold passes after longtime work as a ‘Public Safety Advocate’

Longtime public-safety and wireless-communications consultant and writer Andrew “Andy” Seybold, 77, died Tuesday morning at his home in Phoenix after a lengthy battle with a series of health problems. A prolific writer, Seybold wrote about wireless communications in a variety of venues—in columns for newsletters, in white papers as a consultant, and as an author […]

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ATN International teases a big carrier deal beyond FirstNet work

ATN International executives said the company expects to ink an agreement with “another national carrier” during its current fiscal quarter. But they didn’t provide details about the structure of the agreement or reveal the identity of the carrier. In 2019, AT&T agreed to pay ATN’s Commnet Wireless $167.5 million to build and maintain AT&T’s wireless network in […]

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UK’s LTE-based ESN still getting red marks over delays

A little under two years ago, the UK’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) was already in trouble. Well over budget and late by several years, the project has been overhauled a number of times and those responsible have been admonished on numerous occasions by oversight bodies such as the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the […]

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UK looks to France for ideas to complete LTE-based ESN for first responders

After spending most of the past decade as the European leader in pursuit of public-safety broadband communications, United Kingdom (UK) officials hope new initiatives in France and elsewhere can help inform a better approach that will allow the much-delayed Emergency Services Network (ESN) to be completed. Simon Ricketts, chair of the UK Home Office Independent […]

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Carrizzo named as FirstNet Authority board chair

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo today announced Chief Richard Carrizzo as the FirstNet Authority board’s chair. Carrizzo is first public-safety practitioner to lead the organization’s board and the sixth person overall to fill the role. Carrizzo—the fire chief for the Southern Platte Fire Protection District in the Kansas City, Mo., area—initially was appointed to […]

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After 5G hangover, there’s not much telco love for 6G

Every ten years, after lots of noisy hook-ups in darkened rooms under the supervisory eye of standards bodies like the 3GPP, the global telecom industry gives birth to a new wailing generation of mobile technology. For anyone who’s been hibernating this decade, we’re currently about three or four years into the fifth of these generations […]

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AST SpaceMobile says it makes first satellite-direct-to-phone voice calls

AST SpaceMobile today announced that it completed the first two-way voice calls via satellite-direct-to-phone connections during tests to unmodified cellular devices—a breakthrough claim in the nascent satellite-direct-to-phone arena, which previously has been limited to text-based applications. Using its BlueWalker 3 low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite, AST SpaceMobile completed the first satellite-direct-to-phone voice call from Midland, Texas, area—the […]

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Globalstar hints at life after the iPhone

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Rogers Communications announces satellite-direct-to-phone deal with Lynk Global

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UK’s ESN watches on as LTE public safety networks proliferate

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Andrew Seybold passes after longtime work as a ‘Public Safety Advocate’

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ATN International teases a big carrier deal beyond FirstNet work

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UK’s LTE-based ESN still getting red marks over delays

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UK looks to France for ideas to complete LTE-based ESN for first responders

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Carrizzo named as FirstNet Authority board chair

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After 5G hangover, there’s not much telco love for 6G

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AST SpaceMobile says it makes first satellite-direct-to-phone voice calls

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