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AT&T: What outage?

AT&T reported first quarter results that showed better-than-expected performance in its wireless business, with net customer additions and churn surpassing most analyst expectations. That’s noteworthy considering AT&T generated nationwide headlines in February when its wireless network collapsed for hours. “Nationwide AT&T cell phone outage prevents emergency calls,” reported The Washington Post. “AT&T Says It’s ‘Working Urgently’ to […]

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

Highlights The 3GPP Plenary meetings took place March 18-22, 2024, in Maastricht, Netherlands. 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Terminal (CT) groups continued to focus on completing the work for Release 18 (R18). The specifications are functionally frozen (no new features will be added) and only minor exceptions remain. The specifications remain on track […]

Hytera back in business, as appeals court halts sanctions blocking company’s two-way-radio sales

Hytera Communications returned to its full business on Tuesday afternoon, when a U.S. appeals court granted the LMR manufacturer’s request to stay federal district-court sanctions that prevented Hytera from selling two-way-radio products worldwide for more than a week. Under the order, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals granted Hytera Communications’ renewed emergency motion for a […]

Hytera asks appeals court to halt injunction blocking sales of two-way-radio products

Hytera Communications has asked a U.S. appeals court to halt a federal district court’s injunction that has prevented the land-mobile-radio (LMR) manufacturer from selling two-way-radio products worldwide for more than a week—sanctions that Hytera attorneys described as “crushing” in a legal brief. Meanwhile, U.S. District Court Judge Martha Pacold on Monday again extended the injunction […]

Viasat direct-to-device plans have lift-off after Inmarsat merger

Viasat’s president, Guru Gowrappan, pointed to direct-to-device (D2D), space-to-space and multi-orbit communications as examples of prominent emerging technologies in the satellite industry during the opening of the company’s new international headquarters in London. While this wave of innovation in the satellite communications sector represents a host of new opportunities, there are also challenges, not least […]

Hytera global sales of two-way-radio products still blocked, judge awaits clarity from China court

An injunction halting the global sale of Hytera Communications two-way-radio technology remained in effect on Wednesday, when a U.S. federal district-court judge ruled that the contempt sanctions should be maintained until a Chinese court provides written assurance about the outcome of key lawsuit that Hytera has withdrawn in China. U.S. District Court Judge Martha Pacold […]
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