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Podcast: Verizon’s Maggie Hallbach on securing and connecting the public sector

Maggie Hallbach, senior VP of public sector for Verizon, joins the podcast shortly after her promotion to leading Verizon’s Public Sector business, which provides cloud, security and networking services to state and local government as well as academic institutions. Hallbach also explains how her team works with Verizon Frontline to utilize technologies like 5G to support first […]

IWCE 2022: The future of 5G and its implications for government organizations

These days, 5G dominates discourse and headlines—drawing intense interest from engineers and conspiracy theorists alike. As the fifth-generation technological standard for broadband cellular networks, the implications of 5G are profound and, as of yet, still not completely realized.  “It’s going to be high speed, low latency, and massive scale,” said Bryan Schromsky, managing partner of […]

BroadWay project delivers technical successes, but challenges remain for European public-safety LTE

An initiative designed to develop interoperable public-safety LTE connectivity throughout much of Europe continues to make technical progress, but several key practical aspects of real-world deployment—spectrum usage, business models and governance—remain unclear, according to IWCE 2022 speakers addressing the matter. Airbus and Frequentis each are leading a consortium of companies through the third phase of […]

PTT over FirstNet gains traction, with some entities planning to abandon LMR

LAS VEGAS—Perceived primarily as a data-centric network, FirstNet connectivity is gaining traction as a mission-critical-voice alternative to traditional land-mobile-radio (LMR) technology, as speakers during IWCE 2022 conference sessions have noted this week. Push-to-talk (PTT) solution ESChat was one of the first applications included in the FirstNet App Catalog when it was established years ago, but […]

AT&T calls for LMR-like hardening, coverage for FirstNet in-building systems

LAS VEGAS—AT&T supports the notion that in-building systems supporting first-responder communications on FirstNet should meet public-safety-grade requirements for coverage and resiliency, but questions remain about the business model for building owners that are expected to provide most—if not all—of the funding. Steve Devine, AT&T’s director of public-safety policy and strategy for FirstNet, said that in-building […]

Partnership of Cobham Satcom, Hypha by Wireless Innovation could aid critical-comms transitions

Critical-communications entities throughout the world seeking to make a resilient, cost-effective step in the transition to broadband technologies could benefit from a recently announced partnership between Denmark-based Cobham Satcom and Australia-based Hypha by Wireless Innovation, according to Hypha CEO Neil Jamieson. Known as the PRISM solution, the Cobham-Hypha initiative uses LTE and satellite to extend […]
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