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FirstNet buildout on pace for March 2023 completion, AT&T official says

AT&T expects to finish its contracted five-year FirstNet buildout on Band 14 spectrum by the scheduled March 2023 deadline, but the carrier likely will not complete deployment significantly earlier, because most of the remaining cell sites are in some of the most challenging locations to service, according to an AT&T official. Jason Porter, AT&T’s president […]

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Bell Canada is latest telco to succumb to AWS at the edge

Besides death and taxes, the two greatest certainties in life today are that news headlines will mention a previously unrecognized coronavirus mutation with vaccine-evading potential and that public cloud companies will continue their unstoppable drift into telecomland. Sure enough, in the same week, the UK’s Daily Mail screamed panic about a Nepalese COVID-19 variant and AWS notched […]

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Florida governor approves budget with no-bid P25 funding earmarked for L3Harris

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis yesterday signed the $100 billion budget for the state that includes funding for L3Harris Technologies to upgrade the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) to P25 technology and enable interoperability with the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband system (NPSBN). DeSantis used his line-item veto power to nix several items from the budget […]

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Ericsson refines its private-wireless sales pitch

Ericsson on Tuesday announced its new “Private 5G” offering. The company said the service “optimizes and simplifies business operations with cloud-based network management, keeps sensitive data on-premise, has zero downtime upgrades and guarantees high performance through Service-Level Agreements (SLAs).” The company added that the new product will initially be targeted at such industries as manufacturing, mining, utilities, […]

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Huawei sees heavy early demand for its smart cars

Remember Huawei’s emphatic denials that it’s absolutely not going to make cars? It’s true. Huawei is not making cars – it’s selling them. It began taking orders in April for the Seres SF5, an electric vehicle made by a little-known motorcycle and component manufacturer, Chongqing Jinkang, from China’s southwest. In a demonstration of the power of […]

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FCC approves stay order to halt leasing rules for 4.9 GHz spectrum

FCC commissioners this week released an order that grants a request from the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA), indefinitely suspending the 4.9 GHz rules passed last year that would have let states lease the longtime public-safety spectrum to commercial entities. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Geoffrey Starks and Nathan Simington delivered the three supporting votes for […]

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Motorola Solutions CEO anticipates extension of Airwave contract in UK by end of year

A new deal between the Home Office and Motorola Solutions to extend the life of the Airwave TETRA system that provides mission-critical LMR communications to first responders in the United Kingdom (UK) likely will be finalized by the end of this year, according to Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown. “I’m not going to […]

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Lynk files with FCC, plans to offer LEO satellite-to-phone service next year

Lynk today announced that it has applied for a commercial operator’s license with the FCC to offer its “cell towers in space” services around the world as early as next year, so unmodified cellular devices can communicate directly with Lynk LEO satellites to fill coverage gaps in terrestrial networks. “We’re getting ready to roll out […]

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How Australia came to ban Huawei

Australian cybersecurity experts spent eight months trying to find a way to secure Huawei equipment but concluded they could not prevent it being shut down on Beijing’s orders, according to revelations in a new book. The book, Red Zone, reports that after war-gaming a Huawei 5G deployment hackers from intelligence agency Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) estimated it would […]

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Automakers must grab the lead in the V2X data battle

Carmakers will lose the battle for control of data from the connected car unless they take the lead in setting industry standards. That’s the view of Dr Engelbert Wimmer, CEO and co-founder of automotive consultancy Entrepreneurs & Consultants (E&C), who warns that any reluctance to act will see the digital giants take over the control […]

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FirstNet buildout on pace for March 2023 completion, AT&T official says

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Bell Canada is latest telco to succumb to AWS at the edge

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Florida governor approves budget with no-bid P25 funding earmarked for L3Harris

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Ericsson refines its private-wireless sales pitch

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Huawei sees heavy early demand for its smart cars

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FCC approves stay order to halt leasing rules for 4.9 GHz spectrum

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Motorola Solutions CEO anticipates extension of Airwave contract in UK by end of year

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Lynk files with FCC, plans to offer LEO satellite-to-phone service next year

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How Australia came to ban Huawei

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Automakers must grab the lead in the V2X data battle

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Unfinished Business: Why NFPA and IBC fire codes need to kill the fire phone

Unlocking the power of ESInets: Different NG911 provisioning approaches exist; level of control is key differentiator

Ransomware? Let’s call it what it really is: extortionware

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‘Turquoise hydrogen’ offers promise of lower-cost green fuel dlvr.it/S4SVq6

IoT search engines make it easy to find vulnerable devices, and that’s a problem dlvr.it/S4SVlS

Emergency Communications Districts across Tennessee Address Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities dlvr.it/S4S92W

Intel warns of chip shortages but trumpets open RAN dlvr.it/S4Lyvv

Optimizing the citizen experience with interactive portals and one-door entry policies dlvr.it/S4LtcZ

AT&T, Motorola collaborate on second MCPTT offering for FirstNet dlvr.it/S4JLjD

FirstNet tops 2.5 million connections and 17,000 agencies, AT&T exec says dlvr.it/S4Fry2

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, it’s time for municipalities to get into the driver’s seat dlvr.it/S4FP3P