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An inside look at Verizon’s first 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) customers

Verizon has been touting its ambitious 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) since it was first announced at the AWS Re:Invent conference in December. Verizon is calling its MEC platform the 5G Edge and it is now available in five markets – Washington, D.C.; Boston; Atlanta; New York; and San Francisco. Developers […]

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Assured Wireless announces HPUE products that extend range of FirstNet devices on Band 14

Assured Wireless this week announced its AW12 family of high-power user equipment (HPUE) products that have been approved for use on FirstNet, the nationwide public-safety network built by AT&T that leverages 700 MHz Band 14—the only U.S. spectrum where the highest-power HPUE equipment can be used. With HPUE gear, FirstNet subscribers on Band 14 spectrum […]

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Smart cities must bring communities with them

Smart cities with autonomous traffic will have to work with all the stakeholders to become a workable reality. That’s the message from the launch of London’s Smart Mobility Living Lab (SMLL) dedicated to testing automated driving technologies both in the real and virtual worlds. The Lab launched last week boasts a host of on-road and […]

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UK Home Office asked to clarify timeline, costs to deploy ESN

United Kingdom (UK) Home Office officials are expected to provide greater clarity next week to a Parliament committee about progress in the development of the Emergency Services Network (ESN), the much-delayed public-safety LTE network that is projected to be several billion dollars over budget. In a letter to Home Office Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft dated […]

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Post offices could be the new edge of 5G networks – report

A new report by the inspector general of the US Postal Service lays out a detailed and compelling proposal for how the 228-year-old government agency could play a major role in the deployment of 5G. The US Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) “concluded that there may be an opportunity to leverage the Postal […]

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Concealing 5G small-cell sites in your city

Deployment of 5G services is proving more challenging than it was for prior wireless generations. To provide continuous coverage for fixed wireless access (FWA) and mobile applications, 5G small cell sites must be lower to the ground and significantly closer to one another than previous wireless sites that were mounted high up on macro towers. […]

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Starlink’s network faces significant limitations, analysts find

Starlink, the satellite Internet provider from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will be able to support just 485,000 simultaneous users at 100Mbit/s across the entire US, according to one firm’s new estimates. And that kind of performance won’t even be available until the end of 2026, when Starlink floods Earth’s skies with up to 12,000 satellites. According […]

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FirstNet One LTE blimp used for first time in aftermath of Hurricane Laura

FirstNet One, recently completed its first real deployment providing public-safety communications, as the tethered the aerostat that acts as an LTE tower in the sky supported the response effort in Louisiana during the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, according to AT&T officials. “This was our first field deployment in a real incident,” Tom Steele, AT&T’s director […]

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Motorola Solutions introduces cloud-based P25 core as resiliency option

Motorola Solutions this week announced CirrusCentral Core, a P25 secondary-core offering that is hosted in the cloud and will be offered as a service to provide ASTRO 25 network operators with greater resiliency in the event that the primary core for an ASTRO 25 system is unavailable. Scott Mottonen, senior vice president of product for […]

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Ericsson to buy Cradlepoint for $1.1 billion cash

Ericsson today announced an agreement to pay $1.1 billion cash to acquire Cradlepoint—known in the U.S. public-safety market for providing broadband connectivity solutions in vehicles—in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year. Ericsson President and CEO Börje Ekholm described Cradlepoint as a leading provider of wireless-edge WAN enterprise solutions […]

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An inside look at Verizon’s first 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) customers

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Assured Wireless announces HPUE products that extend range of FirstNet devices on Band 14

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Smart cities must bring communities with them

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UK Home Office asked to clarify timeline, costs to deploy ESN

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Post offices could be the new edge of 5G networks – report

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Concealing 5G small-cell sites in your city

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Starlink’s network faces significant limitations, analysts find

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FirstNet One LTE blimp used for first time in aftermath of Hurricane Laura

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Motorola Solutions introduces cloud-based P25 core as resiliency option

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Ericsson to buy Cradlepoint for $1.1 billion cash

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