News Motorola Solutions sees COVID-19 dip in enterprise LMR but claims no LTE cannibalization 11th May 2020 Motorola Solutions saw a notable decline in land-mobile-radio (LMR) sales during the first quarter and expects a much bigger drop during the second quarter amid the COVID-19-driven economic collapse, but the company is confident in the future of its mission-critical offerings when the pandemic is over, CEO Greg Brown said last week. Speaking during Motorola […]
Audio Motorola Solutions: John Touvannas highlights new APX NEXT features, future plans 10th May 2020 John Touvannas, Motorola Solutions’ director of product management, describes the functionality included in the new SmartMessaging and SmartMapping applications that are available through on the APX NEXT, the company’s P25 radio that includes LTE connectivity.
News COVID-19 pandemic having mixed impacts on in-building projects for public-safety communications 8th May 2020 Most aspects of the economy have slowed or halted completely in the wake of measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but the pandemic is resulting in certain in-building communications projects being accelerated, according to an official at in-building solutions provider ADRF. Dennis Burns, ADRF’s director of public safety, said the company is very busy […]
News Airgain integrated antenna-HPUE modem promises to double effective Band 14 range 7th May 2020 Airgain today announced AirgainConnect AC-HPUE, an antenna-modem that is designed to double the LTE coverage range of a mobile router by integrating a 700 MHz Band 14 high-power-user-equipment (HPUE) modem into the antenna, enabling 10 times the transmit power of a typical roof-mounted antenna. AirgainConnect AC-HPUE integrates a FirstNet Ready Band 14 HPUE modem from […]
Partner content Cost and COVID-19 hit driverless investment, Bosch says 7th May 2020 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 […]
Partner content Loon nabs partnership with AT&T, but not necessarily revenues 7th May 2020 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 […]
News Newscan: The miracle of the Internet not breaking during COVID-19 pandemic 7th May 2020 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 […]
Audio CBRS: Bob Plaschke outlines promising options to leverage 3.5 GHz spectrum 6th May 2020 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) […]
News COVID-19 economic impact could accelerate LMR-to-LTE shift, L3Harris CEO says 5th May 2020 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 […]
Partner content U.S. sets up new open RAN group amid telecom slugfest with China 5th May 2020 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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