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Ericsson feels the squeeze as big customers slash 5G spending

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm is known to be a fan of ice hockey, where players are routinely pulverized against the sideboards and whacked with sticks. It seems fitting given the share of painful blows that his own company has suffered in the last year. From US fines over a bribery scandal in Iraq to write-downs […]

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FCC approves new 4.9 GHz rules for public safety, with secondary non-public-safety use

FCC commissioners this week unanimously agreed on new rules for 50 MHz of 4.9 GHz spectrum, establishing a nationwide framework with a single band manager but one that is designed to let individual public-safety licensees retain local control over operations in the band, including support of 5G connectivity. Wednesday’s release of 4.9 GHz rules represent […]

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Skydio rolls out dock for remote drone ops

Drone manufacturer Skydio unveiled a new docking and software system it says will make its aircraft virtually autonomous, a critical capability for the remote tasks the San Mateo, California-based company’s drones are designed to complete. The new product line includes Skydio Dock and Skydio Dock Lite, both of which are run by Skydio’s new Remote Ops software […]

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NATE: Todd Schlekeway previews upcoming NATE UNITE 2023 event

Todd Schlekeway, executive director of NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, outlines many features of the NATE UNITE 2023 event, which will be conducted Feb. 20-23 in Orlando.

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Standalone 5G progress remains ‘a disappointment’

The standalone (SA) version of 5G has often been touted as “real” 5G. But if that’s the case, today there does not appear to be a huge amount of interest from network operators in real 5G. The latest findings on 5G SA come from research firm Dell’Oro Group, which has kept a count of all the […]

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A billion dollars for local-government cybersecurity—Will they ever see it?

Remember the fanfare upon learning of the passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) signed into law in November 2021? One billion dollars targeted state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) with a cyber grant program within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over four years. After the bill’s passage came the […]

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Critical-infrastructure ICS confronted by attackers armed with new motives, tactics, and malware

The motive of financial and political gain—fueled partially by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine—has emboldened threat actors to barrage industrial control systems (ICS) with ever-more-disruptive cyberattacks, diversifying the threat landscape for critical infrastructure, new research shows. This trend is expected to continue throughout 2023 with attackers arming themselves with new tactics and malware, forcing ICS […]

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Nextivity buys HPUE tech company Assured Wireless

Nextivity today announced the acquisition of Assured Wireless, the maker of high-power user equipment (HPUE) is used most by organization with broadband communications operating on the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority. Assured Wireless gained notoriety in the public-safety arena as the pioneer in HPUE technology, which supports connectivity of 1.25 […]

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3GPP moves Release 18 freeze date to March 2024

The latest set of 3GPP Plenary electronic meetings (e-meetings) concluded on Dec. 19, 2022. The meetings focused on the Release 18 (R18) feature progress and schedule. It was decided to extend the R18 freeze date (specifications complete for all R18 features) by three months to March 2024 to ensure the quality of the R18 3GPP […]

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Newscan: Substation attacks may lead to new energy security rules in 2023, experts say

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Substation attacks may lead to new energy security rules in 2023, experts say FCC chair; 5G expansion creates ‘broader attack surface’ for cyberattacks New York City rolling out new 911 system that lets people send texts and video Buried vs. aerial: Fiber firms try to balance growth with […]

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Ericsson feels the squeeze as big customers slash 5G spending

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FCC approves new 4.9 GHz rules for public safety, with secondary non-public-safety use

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Skydio rolls out dock for remote drone ops

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NATE: Todd Schlekeway previews upcoming NATE UNITE 2023 event

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Standalone 5G progress remains ‘a disappointment’

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A billion dollars for local-government cybersecurity—Will they ever see it?

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Critical-infrastructure ICS confronted by attackers armed with new motives, tactics, and malware

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Nextivity buys HPUE tech company Assured Wireless

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3GPP moves Release 18 freeze date to March 2024

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Newscan: Substation attacks may lead to new energy security rules in 2023, experts say

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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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