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House passes bill with $10 billion in NG911 funding, sends to Senate

House members this week overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill calling for $10 billion to fund the transition to IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) technology and the extension of the FCC’s spectrum-auction authority, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration. After debating H.R. 7624—the “Spectrum Innovation Act”—on Tuesday afternoon, the House postponed its vote on […]

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Building open data systems to benefit road networks

The proliferation of connected vehicles and sensors embedded into road infrastructure offer manifold possibilities to collect and analyze data to improve road safety, direct maintenance efforts and guide equitable mobility programs. Creating of open data systems, where the gathered information can be safely and affordably stored, analyzed and shared, could help better transportation networks on […]

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Open RAN so easy to hack it’s ‘scary,’ says top security boffin

Karsten Nohl has the unusual job of hacking into companies at their behest. Known as “red teaming,” the process is the IT world’s equivalent of driving crash test dummies into brick walls or firing dead chickens into a grounded plane’s jet engines. The basic idea is to expose the vulnerabilities safely (this, remember, is how […]

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House debates NG911-funding bill, postpones vote

U.S. House members yesterday expressed support for legislation that would provide as much as $10 billion in federal funding to pay for a transition to IP-based next-generation 911 technology—as well as extend the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions—but postponed a vote on the bill. Approved unanimously by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce […]

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Satellite company Iridium hints at mysterious smartphone deal

Iridium, a satellite operator based in Virginia, announced that it “entered into a development agreement to enable Iridium’s technology in smartphones.” However, the company did not disclose any details in its latest filing with the SEC, such as the companies it might be working with. “The agreement is contingent upon the successful development of the technology, […]

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Will they come for Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg?

Hans Vestberg started his telecom career at network equipment giant Ericsson in the early 1990s. He worked his way up through the Swedish company’s ranks until, in 2010, he became the vendor’s first CEO who didn’t have a background in engineering. But Ericsson ejected Vestberg in 2016 following a string of poor financial results and a slide […]

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Newscan: Why suspected Chinese spy gear remains in America’s telecom networks

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Why suspected Chinese spy gear remains in America’s telecom networks Calls mount for blocking warrantless mass data collection Federal ability to buy citizen data worries lawmakers and experts alike Official: White House to meet with rail industry before issuing cybersecurity rules Authentication risk discovered in Okta platform ‘Password […]

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UK watchdog CMA delays provisional decision on Moto-Airwave investigation to September

A report outlining a United Kingdom (UK) competition regulator’s provisional decision is not expected to be complete until September—a three-month delay when compared to the previous schedule—according to a new administrative timeline released today by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). CMA posted the new timeline on its website as observers of the investigation anticipated […]

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AT&T says FirstNet tops 21,800 agencies, 3.7 million connections

FirstNet added 319,000 connections during the second quarter of this year, resulting in the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) serving more than 21,800 public-safety agencies with more than 3.7 million connections, according to officials for FirstNet contractor AT&T. AT&T provided the FirstNet figures in conjunction with the release of its second-quarter corporate performance on Thursday, […]

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Germany’s Deutsche Telekom poised to gain majority control over T-Mobile US

Deutsche Telekom (DT) stands to gain around $10.9 billion from the recent sale of a stake in its European cell tower business. The company is widely expected to use that money to gain a majority stake in T-Mobile in the US. “Deutsche Telekom has been steadily increasing its stake in T-Mobile US and currently sits at […]

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House passes bill with $10 billion in NG911 funding, sends to Senate

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Building open data systems to benefit road networks

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Open RAN so easy to hack it’s ‘scary,’ says top security boffin

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House debates NG911-funding bill, postpones vote

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Satellite company Iridium hints at mysterious smartphone deal

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Will they come for Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg?

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Newscan: Why suspected Chinese spy gear remains in America’s telecom networks

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UK watchdog CMA delays provisional decision on Moto-Airwave investigation to September

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AT&T says FirstNet tops 21,800 agencies, 3.7 million connections

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Germany’s Deutsche Telekom poised to gain majority control over T-Mobile US

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