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FirstNet’s CEO on 5G, priorities in 2022 and what’s next

Edward Parkinson this year is celebrating a full decade of work on what is today FirstNet. Roughly ten years ago he was a staffer for former Rep. Peter King of New York, working on the legislation that would eventually create FirstNet. He then joined the nascent agency in 2013 as its chief of government affairs […]

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FirstNet, built by AT&T: Fred Scalera talks public-safety-communications efforts for Super Bowl

Fred Scalera, AT&T’s director of government program management for FirstNet, highlights the permanent infrastructure and deployable assets that AT&T has put in place to support both first-responder and audience communications during this weekend’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles. During its two-year preparation for the event, AT&T has invested $2.7 billion to improve coverage and […]

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Four takeaways from the House hearing on 5G in the C-band

On Thursday, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a lengthy hearing on 5G operations in C-band spectrum and whether they pose a threat to aircraft. The event was noteworthy because it’s the first time aviation and wireless experts, including the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), have spoken at length in public about the […]

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Receiver design cited as primary issue in FAA-FCC dispute over 5G deployments near airports

A lack of filtering on older radio altimeters on a fraction of commercial airplanes is the reason potential signaling conflicts may exist, resulting in many flights being grounded or redirected since U.S. wireless carriers launched 5G service on C-band spectrum last month, according to witness testimony to a House subcommittee. Roberson and Associates President and […]

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CBRS isn’t living up to expectations: Dell’Oro Group

Research and consulting firm Dell’Oro Group has reduced its expectations for sales of equipment running in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band. The firm said the fixed wireless access (FWA) portion of the market is developing as expected, but that things seem to be dragging in the areas of private wireless networking and mobile network augmentation. “We still […]

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Newscan: FAA’s beef with 5G: What you need to know

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations FAA’s beef with 5G: What you need to know Did the Federal Aviation Administration cry wolf on 5G? New Jersey tightens cybersecurity rules for water systems Sen. Maria Cantwell looks to ‘firm up’ Gigi Sohn FCC confirmation vote 911 center operators share lessons learned from the pandemic Dashcam […]

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FirstNet exceeds 3 million connections and 19,500 agencies, AT&T reports

FirstNet added more than 1 million connections last year, providing more than 3 million connections to more than 19,500 public-safety agencies at the end of 2021, according to figures reported this morning by AT&T, the contractor responsible for building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). AT&T officials barely mentioned FirstNet during today’s quarterly […]

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Inside the messy world of T-Mobile’s 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses

The Christian College of Georgia was founded in 1947 in Athens, Georgia. It used to operate a college campus for students at the nearby University of Georgia who planned to enter the ministry of the “Disciples of Christ,” a Protestant denomination. However, it closed that campus in 1995. Today it offers remote courses for ordained […]

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Newscan: Major airlines say the 5G doomsday scenario is over

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Major airlines say the 5G doomsday scenario is over Cyberattack on Red Cross compromised sensitive data on over 515,000 vulnerable people New York Power Authority to beef up cybersecurity with new IronNet, AWS deal With a repair ship days away, Tonga faces weeks of digital darkness Tonga’s volcano […]

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How the launch of ‘real’ 5G turned into an unmitigated PR disaster

Midband 5G has long been the most alluring flavor of the technology. Unlike lowband 5G, it supports impressive speeds. And unlike highband, millimeter wave 5G, it covers wide geographic areas. Midband 5G has often been described as the “real” 5G due to the “Goldilocks” nature of spectrum that’s not too low and not too high but juuuuuust right. For […]

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FirstNet’s CEO on 5G, priorities in 2022 and what’s next

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FirstNet, built by AT&T: Fred Scalera talks public-safety-communications efforts for Super Bowl

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Four takeaways from the House hearing on 5G in the C-band

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Receiver design cited as primary issue in FAA-FCC dispute over 5G deployments near airports

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CBRS isn’t living up to expectations: Dell’Oro Group

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Newscan: FAA’s beef with 5G: What you need to know

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FirstNet exceeds 3 million connections and 19,500 agencies, AT&T reports

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Inside the messy world of T-Mobile’s 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses

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Newscan: Major airlines say the 5G doomsday scenario is over

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How the launch of ‘real’ 5G turned into an unmitigated PR disaster

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Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

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