Partner content Connectivity to prevent highway pileups 29th April 2020 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 […]
News FirstNet tops 1.3 million connections, 12,000 agencies, AT&T says 28th April 2020 FirstNet supports more than 1.3 million connections across more than 12,000 agencies, according to figures supplied last week by AT&T, the FirstNet Authority’s nationwide contractor responsible for building the nationwide public-safety broadband network. AT&T provided the updated FirstNet numbers as part of the company’s report of earnings for the first quarter—the first reporting period impacted […]
Audio ESChat: Josh Lober discusses COVID-19 impact on PTT business 27th April 2020 ESChat Josh Lober explains the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) company, in terms of internal operations and subscribing customers.
Partner content With connected cars, zero trust is the best security advice 26th April 2020 The road to fully autonomous vehicles has many obstacles but perhaps none more insidious than hacking. Cybersecurity experts say improvements have been made but there’s much work to be done to secure vehicles before and during production as well as years later once they’re on the road. McAfee recently made headlines by hacking a Tesla […]
Audio Pryme: Dave George outlines business changes related to COVID-19 24th April 2020 Pryme CEO Dave George explains how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted his company’s accessory business, in terms of both operations and customer demand.
Partner content Return on 5G infrastructure investment remains a puzzle 23rd April 2020 Despite the initial optimism surrounding 5G, achieving return on investment on the technology remains uncertain for telecommunications operators. As a result, the prospect that t5G connectivity will spur a flurry of novel IoT applications will almost certainly be delayed. While deployments are steadily increasing, so are telcos’ costs. Although increasing cellular traffic underscores the need for […]
Partner content AT&T CEO warns of ‘downward proclivity’ in network spending 23rd April 2020 AT&T promised that it would offer lowband 5G nationwide this summer – the operator said it has already expanded the offering to cover 120 million people in 190 markets – but executives warned that the operator’s network spending could slow due to the pandemic. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Wednesday during his company’s quarterly conference […]
News School of hard knocks: 911 operations in the COVID-19 era 23rd April 2020 Boxer and pop philosopher Mike Tyson once opined that “everyone has a plan—until they get punched in the mouth.” Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has punched the public-safety/emergency-response community squarely in the mouth—and hard. But the community’s resiliency and creativity is enabling it to fight back equally hard, and the lessons being learned through the […]
News FCC plans vote on Anterix proposal for 900 MHz private LTE for utilities, enterprises 22nd April 2020 FCC commissioners next month are expected to approve rules that would let Anterix transition its narrowband LMR spectrum in the 900 MHz band to a contiguous block of private LTE airwaves designed to support mission-critical broadband applications for utilities and other enterprises. For Anterix—known as pdvWireless until the company changed its name last June—the FCC […]
Audio Avtec: Dan Sawicki talks 911 evolution, previews April 30 webinar 20th April 2020 Dan Sawicki, director of project management at Motorola Solutions, discusses the evolution of 911, with a particular focus on call centers leveraging the cloud and other technologies to increase their agility and flexibility during times of crisis. Sawicki also notes the importance of 911 centers to receive and process different types of information–text, data, […]
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 24th March 2024
FirstNet Authority reauthorization needed as public-safety-driven network evolution proceeds 16th March 2024