News Cal OES expresses opposition to PSSA proposal of FirstNet Authority 4.9 GHz spectrum license 19th January 2024 An official with the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) this week submitted a letter to the FCC expressing opposition to a Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) proposal asking the federal agency to award the FirstNet Authority with a nationwide license in the 4.9 GHz band. “Cal OES appreciates the PSSA’s efforts to preserve […]
Partner content CISA: AWS, Microsoft 365 accounts under active ‘Androxgh0st’ attack 18th January 2024 The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued an alert about a malware campaign targeting Apache webservers and websites using the popular Laravel Web application framework, leveraging known bugs for initial compromise. The end goal of the campaign is to steal credentials to high-profile applications such as Amazon Web Services, […]
Partner content Vodafone strikes $1.5B cloud and AI deal with Microsoft 18th January 2024 When it comes to the public cloud, Vodafone is strictly polygamous. “We are one third AWS and one third GCP [Google Cloud Platform], and the final third is split between OCI [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure] and [Microsoft] Azure,” Scott Petty, Vodafone’s chief technology officer, told reporters in August 2023, reeling off a list of famous and […]
Commentary 3GPP begins Release 19 work for public safety as Release 18 progress continues 17th January 2024 The 3GPP Plenary meetings took place Dec. 11-15, 2023, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Participants made continued progress on Release 18 (R18) features of interest to public safety. The Plenary meetings also included planning for Release 19 (R19) features, and the start of preliminary discussions for Release 20 (R20). The FirstNet Authority served as an active participant […]
Partner content NASA one step closer to deploying humanoid robots in space 16th January 2024 NASA is one step closer to sending humanoid robots to space, with the agency’s humanoid design, Valkyrie, undergoing some of its final testing phases at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. According to the agency, Valkyrie is designed for “damaged or degraded environments” such as natural disaster sites, though NASA developed the robot with […]
Partner content Mandiant, SEC lose control of X accounts without 2FA 16th January 2024 Upon review, Google’s cybersecurity operation at Mandiant has determined it temporarily lost control of its X account to cryptocurrency drainer malware operators on Jan. 3 because it didn’t have two-factor authentication set up. Effective March 20, 2023, only paid, premium subscribers to X (formerly Twitter) have access to 2FA. It’s an embarrassing admission that experts say […]
News FCC to consider new outage-reporting rules, soliciting comments on FirstNet, deployable usage 12th January 2024 FCC commissioners this month are scheduled to consider new rules regarding the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) and the Network Outage Reporting System (NORS), as well as a proposal seeking comments whether FirstNet should have reporting obligations and whether deployable coverage should be reported. Under the proposed new rules, all cable, wireless, wireline and interconnected […]
Partner content Memphis utility puts $27M toward spectrum for private wireless network 11th January 2024 Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) is spending $27 million to buy a chunk of 600MHz spectrum in the pursuit of a private wireless network for its utility operations. The company has also allocated $31 million for construction of the network, with plans to issue a request for proposal (RFP) for the project sometime this […]
Partner content John Deere features automated cotton picking at CES 2024 11th January 2024 John Deere goes big at every CES. At one CES, Deere featured its totally self-driving tractor. It was so big, Deere erected a home for it in a parking lot outside the Las Vegas Convention Center. At the last CES, Deere showed its expansive ExactShot and See & Spray technologies on a massive farm machine. Those technologies are […]
News LMR licensing activity maintained recent low levels during 2023 10th January 2024 Public-safety and business-industrial land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing continued near historically low levels during 2023 but did not establish any new records, according to figures available in the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. In the public-safety space, FCC officials received 3,029 LMR licensing applications during 2023, with 2,999 of them being granted as of today, […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024
