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Trump names Brendan Carr as next FCC chairman

Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr will become the next chairman of the agency after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president in January, the president-elect announced on Sunday. “Commissioner Carr is a warrior for free speech and has fought against the regulatory lawfare that has stifled Americans’ freedoms and held back our economy,” according to Trump’s […]

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With new leadership, NextNav and Anterix boast of 900MHz momentum

NextNav and Anterix both own tiny slivers of the 900MHz band, and both sport relatively new leadership. And both are expressing optimism about the future. “It is truly an honor to be leading this great organization, and I’m excited with all that lies ahead for the company,” said Anterix CEO Scott Lang on the company’s latest […]

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FAA approves NY Power Authority drone use beyond line of sight

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved a plan from drone-flight management company Anra Technologies and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to use Anra technology to enable beyond-visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations by NYPA’s drones. The FAA Letter of Acceptance (LOA) allows Anra to deploy its strategic conflict detection and aggregated conformance monitoring services, collectively known as strategic […]

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Rescue 42 unveils 50-pound deployable cell tower

Deployable solution provider Rescue 42 last week announced the miniNSD AiO (All-in-One) deployable cell site, which weighs only 50 pounds and is designed to provide Verizon cellular broadband coverage with satellite backhaul quickly while being powered by internal batteries or external sources. Rescue 42 President, CEO and CTO Tim O’Connell said technological advancements—particularly the Starlink […]

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Verizon, EchoStar, Ericsson and others push for more CBRS power

Some big 5G companies like Verizon, EchoStar and Ericsson want to increase the power of their transmissions in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band. They argue doing so will make the band more useful by extending the geographic range of CBRS signals. But higher power level limits could ruin the burgeoning cable and fixed wireless networks […]

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Lynk shakes up leadership again with new CEO, CFO

Satellite-direct-to-device provider Lynk Global today announced the appointments of Ramu Potorazu as CEO and Steven Fay as CFO to lead Lynk’s efforts to become a publicly listed company in the wake of a recent partnership with Slam, a special-purpose acquisition company led by former baseball star Alex Rodriguez. Potorazu has satellite-industry experience, having served as […]

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AT&T snaps up T-Mobile’s unwanted midband spectrum from UScellular

AT&T is taking its cut from the breakup of UScellular. The company on Thursday inked a deal to buy lowband 700MHz and midband 3.45GHz spectrum from UScellular in a deal worth $1.01 billion. That transaction follows Verizon’s announcement last month that it would buy $1 billion worth of UScellular’s spectrum in the 850MHz and AWS spectrum bands. And that […]

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LMR licensing activity growing in business-industrial sector, FCC data indicates

Business-industrial land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity is tracking to reach its highest level in five years, while licensing for public-safety LMR appears to be at a level similar to recent years, according to figures from the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. With almost two months left in the year, the FCC has received 9,327 […]

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Apple’s satellite ambitions get $1.1B bigger

Apple plans to invest another $1.1 billion into satellite operator Globalstar. But the details and contours of that investment remain unclear. “The Updated Services Agreements provide that Customer [Apple] will make cash prepayments to the Company, including for approved capital expenditures in connection with the Extended MSS Network,” Globalstar disclosed in a new SEC filing. The […]

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Google to retire CBRS network-planning tool

Roughly five years after introducing the service, Google said it will “deprecate” its 3.5GHz CBRS network planning tool by the end of this year. Google officials didn’t immediately respond to Light Reading’s questions about its decision. On its website, Google offers tips on how users can export their data from their Network Planner projects. “It’s really […]

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