Partner content Motorola Solutions highlights renewed LMR strength, growth in video, command-center arenas 10th February 2023 Motorola Solutions officials yesterday reported earnings for 2022 that featured strength in its land-mobile-radio (LMR), video-security and command-center businesses, as well as projections of even more growth this year amid an environment bolstered by significant federal funding that can be used to purchase its products. Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown described 2022 as “a phenomenal […]
Partner content The race to space is getting pretty wild 10th February 2023 The most interesting battle in the cellular industry is playing out across the sky. Apple, Dish Network, Viasat, AST SpaceMobile and Globalstar are among the many companies beginning to compete against one another in the race to connect mobile phones directly to satellites. If you don’t think that’s interesting enough, one of the latest skirmishes […]
Partner content Samsung stays grounded when it comes to satellite 10th February 2023 Last week, Samsung announced its upcoming flagship phone, Galaxy S23, won’t take to the skies quite like its greatest competitor, the iPhone 14 – at least in terms of connectivity. The South Korean tech giant has opted not to include emergency messaging via satellite, citing limited functionality. While that may be the case for now, […]
Partner content Senators reintroduce bill to exempt broadband grants from taxation 10th February 2023 US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) on Thursday reintroduced the Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act: a piece of legislation that would exempt broadband grants from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, American Rescue Plan and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Fund from being treated as taxable income. The bill was first introduced last year, […]
News AT&T becoming a ‘public-safety company’ with FirstNet, NG911 work, exec says 9th February 2023 AT&T has long been one of the greatest consumer communications brands in the world, but the carrier is beginning to become “a public-safety company” through its first-responder-centric efforts in the development of FirstNet and next-generation 911 (NG911) networks, according to Scott Agnew, the new COO of AT&T’s FirstNet team. Two weeks ago, AT&T executives revealed […]
Partner content U.S. government plans to block all tech exports to Huawei–reports 8th February 2023 The Biden administration is weighing a plan to block the export of all US-sourced technologies to Huawei – the latest escalation in Washington’s years-long campaign to throttle the Chinese firm. The new bans, first reported by Financial Times (paywall applies), would likely fall most heavily on firms such as Intel and Qualcomm that sell Huawei server and […]
Partner content Vodafone UK starts ‘risky’ shift to 5G standalone 7th February 2023 Vodafone’s Andrea Dona has unflattering words for some of the IT products that could sit inside his high-performance 5G network. “There are OSS limitations,” said the chief network officer of the UK service provider, referring to operational support systems from unnamed vendors. “If there is full automation on the 5G element, and the OSS is […]
Partner content The shine begins to wear off 5G private wireless 3rd February 2023 Verizon had high hopes for private wireless networking. The company had predicted that by now it would be well on its way to making billions of dollars from the sale of custom 4G and 5G networks dedicated exclusively to its enterprise customers. Indeed, during 2021 Verizon execs pegged the total addressable market for private wireless at around […]
Audio NATE: Todd Schlekeway highlights organization’s safety, legislative initiatives 1st February 2023 Todd Schlekeway, executive director of NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, discusses many of NATE’s planned activities for 2023, including a legislative visit to Capitol Hill in May, safety/training initiatives, and a broader release of the Vertical Freedom documentary that focuses on the lives of tower climbers in the communication arena.
Partner content AT&T boasts of core ‘white box’ success in 5G, fiber push 30th January 2023 AT&T said it has now migrated more than 52% of all of its production traffic onto next-generation “white box” core routers running on products from the likes of Broadcom and DriveNets. The company said its move to such “open” systems has helped its aggressive 5G and fiber expansions. “We announced the next-gen open disaggregated core routing […]
Updated: How ‘sidelink’ peer-to-peer communications can enhance public-safety operations 1 27th February 2023
Airbus U.S.: Rebecca Purcell, Bob Baumann discuss MCX, Agnet offerings dlvr.it/SlJNqW 22nd March 2023
State and local leaders can alleviate the burden on public-safety personnel by tackling three workforce trends dlvr.it/SlBH89 20th March 2023