Partner content USF ruling hands Congress ‘enormously important opportunity’ – USTelecom CEO 1st August 2024 With last week’s court ruling declaring the Universal Service Fund (USF) unconstitutional, some in the industry are ramping up pressure on Congress to take action on USF reform. In an open letter published on Friday, Jonathan Spalter, CEO of USTelecom, called the fifth circuit court’s decision “fundamentally flawed,” and said it “hands Congress an enormously important opportunity to […]
Partner content Microsoft: Azure DDoS attack amplified by cyber-defense error 1st August 2024 Microsoft blamed an implementation error for amplifying the impact of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday, which ended up disrupting the company’s Azure cloud services for nearly eight hours. The attack affected several Azure offerings, including Azure App Services, Azure IoT Central, Application Insights, Log Search Alerts, and Azure Policy. The disruption, which began at […]
Partner content Feds warn of North Korean cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure 30th July 2024 A long-known cyber-espionage group working on behalf of North Korea’s foreign intelligence service is systematically stealing technical information and intellectual property from organizations in the US and other countries to advance its own nuclear and military programs. The group — which security vendors track variously as Andariel, Silent Chollima, Onyx Sleet, and Stonefly — is […]
Partner content First batch of AST SpaceMobile ‘Bluebird’ satellites ready to take flight 26th July 2024 AST SpaceMobile’s plan to deploy a global constellation of satellites that can connect to cellular phones on the ground is nearing liftoff. The company announced Thursday that five of its “Bluebird” low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites have reached completion and are ready to be shipped to Cape Canaveral in Florida during the first week of August. […]
Partner content Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence for America’s infrastructure 26th July 2024 Since celebrating Infrastructure Week in May, the conversation around infrastructure development has taken on a new dimension—one that goes beyond bridges and highways: harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) to propel our infrastructure into the future. AI serves as a catalyst for productivity in a sector often burdened by resource constraints and historical backlogs, providing […]
Partner content Sprawling CrowdStrike incident mitigation showcases resilience gaps 26th July 2024 The fact that a few lines of errant code could cause disruption on the scale that CrowdStrike’s update has over the past four days has focused unparalleled attention on the urgent need for greater resiliency and redundancy in enterprise information technology stacks worldwide. Few expect that getting there will be easy. But almost everyone agrees […]
News FCC approves rules for service providers delivering NG911 emergency communications 26th July 2024 FCC commissioners last week voted unanimously to approve an order designed to ease the transition to IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) technology by providing originating service providers with nationwide rules about their responsibilities and deadlines to deliver emergency calls to NG911 systems. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel described the order as the latest step in the FCC’s […]
Partner content CrowdStrike blames crash on buggy security-content update 25th July 2024 A buggy “security content configuration update” to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor, which is aimed at gathering telemetry on novel threat techniques for Windows, has been confirmed as the root cause of the problem that crashed computers around the world on July 19, and is still having an impact on global IT teams, the vendor says. CrowdStrike — which has […]
Partner content New York joins cities questioning ShotSpotter costs, benefits 25th July 2024 ShotSpotter, a system U.S. police departments use to detect gunfire, resulted in New York Police Department officers spending hundreds of hours in a single month investigating incidents the officers could not confirm were in fact shots fired, according to an audit the New York City comptroller released last week. But ShotSpotter contends the audit is focusing on […]
Partner content FCC study pins all blame on AT&T for massive mobile outage 24th July 2024 The errors and foibles that led to AT&T’s massive mobile network outage in February that impaired millions of devices and blocked millions of voice calls were “all attributed” to the carrier, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau concluded in its damning assessment of the outage. The FCC’s 29-page report (PDF) found that the size and scope of […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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