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EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about ‘ability to continue as a going concern’

The financial situation at EchoStar/Dish Network looks dim, as the newly combined entity issued an ominous warning via this SEC filing that raises “substantial doubt” that the company can continue as a going concern. EchoStar and Dish merged last year, combining Dish’s satellite, streaming, retail wireless business and emerging 5G network with EchoStar’s satellite-focused business. The move was […]

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Would utilities have interest in T-Mobile’s 800MHz auction?

T-Mobile officials said the company will finish auctioning a chunk of nationwide 800MHz spectrum sometime this fall. But there may not be much demand for that kind of spectrum. “I have a hard time seeing who else would necessarily step up,” Brian Goemmer, with spectrum-tracking company Spektrum Metrics, told Light Reading. Other industry executives, who […]

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Motorola Solutions CEO Brown: ‘LMR is here to stay’

Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown expressed optimism about the company’s future in the critical-communications space, specifically noting the ongoing strength in its land-mobile-radio (LMR) offerings and growth in the command-center arena, as well as video security and access control. Speaking at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference on Tuesday, Brown cited the company’s […]

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Zero-click GenAI worm spreads malware, poisoning models

A worm that uses clever prompt engineering and injection is able to trick generative AI (GenAI) apps like ChatGPT into propagating malware and more. In a laboratory setting, three Israeli researchers demonstrated how an attacker could design “adversarial self-replicating prompts” that convince a generative model into replicating input as output – if a malicious prompt comes in, […]

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Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard

Lt. Col. Marcos Rogers of the Mississippi Army National Guard joins Verizon Frontline’s Mark Paff (senior director, business continuity and event management) and Earl Struble, associate director for the Crisis Response Team-South Region) to discuss the recent PATRIOT 24 exercise that is designed to simulate the rapid-recovery efforts that need to be executed during […]

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CommScope won’t ‘sell assets on the cheap’

CommScope is continuing to evaluate alternatives, including asset sales, to help reduce the company’s $9 billion debt load. But execs said divesture discussions have yet to bear fruit, and stressed that CommScope won’t resort to a fire sale. “We do not intend to sell assets on the cheap,” CommScope EVP and CFO Kyle Lorentzen said […]

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IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds

IoT connectivity issues are causing significant financial losses and operational delays, a report from rSIM has found. According to the report’s findings, almost half of businesses (43%) said connectivity problems have caused “life-affecting changes” to either staff or customers, while a quarter said they have been hacked due to connectivity issues. Of the U.K. businesses […]

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Unique aspects of data-incident response in local government

For years, private companies have struggled to protect the data of consumers against security incidents and cyberattacks by malicious threat actors. More recently, there has been a growing surge of data breaches impacting the public sector, and local governments face unique challenges in responding to such incidents. The triage and analysis required following the discovery […]

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At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities

MWC24 – BARCELONA – The wireless industry’s space race increasingly looks like a two-company contest between AT&T, partnering with AST SpaceMobile, and T-Mobile, linked up with SpaceX’s Starlink. The latter effort has gotten much more attention, thanks to Starlink’s enormous constellation of satellites that now includes direct-to-cell versions and also to Elon Musk’s outsized, no-inner-monologue presence on X. During MWC, Musk posted onto X […]

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U.S. government expands role in software security

The Biden administration continues to push for closer public-private partnerships to harden US information-technology infrastructure, calling on companies to shift to memory-safe programming languages and calling on the technical and academic communities to create better ways of measuring software security. This week, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report […]

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EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about ‘ability to continue as a going concern’

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Would utilities have interest in T-Mobile’s 800MHz auction?

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Motorola Solutions CEO Brown: ‘LMR is here to stay’

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Zero-click GenAI worm spreads malware, poisoning models

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Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard

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CommScope won’t ‘sell assets on the cheap’

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IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds

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Unique aspects of data-incident response in local government

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At MWC, AT&T and AST execs talk up space-based possibilities

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U.S. government expands role in software security

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

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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