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More U.S. utilities signal interest in private wireless networks

EA, NRTC and Southern California Edison are among the newest members of the Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA), which this week announced it’s now officially a not-for-profit association “dedicated to advancing and developing private LTE broadband.” The development is the latest in a series of movements within the US utility industry toward private wireless networking. However, it’s still […]

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Policy experts debate the role of wireless in universal broadband on Capitol Hill

Should wireless technologies such as 5G be used to help cross the digital divide and deliver universal broadband? That’s the question up for debate among lawmakers and others. The answer is definitely consequential considering there could be more than $100 billion up for grabs to companies on the winning side of the issue. As the Biden administration […]

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U.S. telcos and cablecos could start getting stimulus checks, too

Millions of Americans around the country are now seeing $1,400 coronavirus stimulus checks show up in their bank accounts. And there’s a good chance that at least some of that money could find its way into the bottom line of telecom providers, considering the ongoing value of Internet connections amid a pandemic forcing homebound working and schooling. […]

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AT&T serves up 5G plans with a healthy dose of pragmatism

AT&T will spend $6 to $8 billion between 2022 and 2024 to deliver 5G services over its new midband C-band spectrum licenses to 70 to 75 million people in 2022 and 100 million people in “early” 2023, the operator said during its analyst event Friday. Those targets sit behind the goals that executives from Verizon and T-Mobile outlined during […]

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Starlink seeks to link planes, trucks and other moving vehicles

Even as Starlink pushes toward a commercial launch of its fixed broadband satellite service, its parent company, SpaceX, is also pursuing a plan to connect Starlink’s network to trucks, planes, ships and other types of relatively large moving vehicles. Starlink’s mobile-facing interests were outlined in an application for blanket-licensed Earth Stations in Motion, or ESIMs, filed on […]

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Bittium official: Public-safety LTE devices ready, but can’t ‘wait for ProSe any longer’

Public-safety adoption of LTE devices will become “mainstream” globally during the next couple of years, but agencies should not expect commercial-device pricing or that Proximity Services—the LTE direct-mode standard known as ProSe—will address the need for off-network communications, according to a Bittium official. Jarno Majava, EMEA sales director for Bittium—the Finland-based manufacturer of rugged LTE […]

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Intelsat and SES: C-band calm hides a brutal legal storm

In their recent meetings with FCC staff, executives from SES and Intelsat offered nothing but sunshine and rainbows in discussing their efforts to clear out their respective operations from recently auctioned C-band spectrum. “SES and Intelsat are creating jobs and paying billions of dollars to small and large businesses throughout the United States,” wrote Christophe De Hauwer, […]

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ADRF targets smaller facilities with new in-building public-safety repeater

ADRF recently announced the availability of it PSR-78-8527, a half-watt public-safety 700/800 MHz digital repeater that is designed to lower the cost to owners of small and mid-sized buildings trying to support first-responder radio and cellular communications in their facilities. Dennis Burns, ADRF’s director of public safety, said the new PSR-series half-watt repeater is designed […]

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Senate American Rescue Plan calls for more than $60 million in direct aid for counties

The U.S. Senate’s version of the 2021 American Rescue Plan maintains the $350 billion in state and local aid that was in the House bill, including $60.1 billion in direct aid to counties. The U.S. Senate begin debating its version March 4. The House of Representatives passed its version of the $1.9 trillion bill Feb. […]

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ESN official hints at potentially costly new timeline for UK public-safety broadband project

A plan submitted seven months ago that called for UK public safety to transition mission-critical voice communications from the Airwave TETRA system to the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN) in 2024 or 2025 was “overambitious” and is being revamped, according to the UK director heading the project. ESN Programme Director John Black did not specify […]

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More U.S. utilities signal interest in private wireless networks

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Policy experts debate the role of wireless in universal broadband on Capitol Hill

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U.S. telcos and cablecos could start getting stimulus checks, too

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AT&T serves up 5G plans with a healthy dose of pragmatism

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Starlink seeks to link planes, trucks and other moving vehicles

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Bittium official: Public-safety LTE devices ready, but can’t ‘wait for ProSe any longer’

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Intelsat and SES: C-band calm hides a brutal legal storm

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ADRF targets smaller facilities with new in-building public-safety repeater

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Senate American Rescue Plan calls for more than $60 million in direct aid for counties

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ESN official hints at potentially costly new timeline for UK public-safety broadband project

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