Partner content Forward-thinking investments and increased power-grid flexibility can prevent wildfires 10th June 2024 Adverse wildfire-prone conditions might become more frequent due to climate change, potentially increasing the incidence of extreme fire events. But this can be prevented by properly optimizing investments and operational decisions for power grids while explicitly considering the relationship between power lines and wildfire ignition under a methodology being developed by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley […]
Partner content Amazon gains FAA approval to fly drones even farther 10th June 2024 Amazon is expanding its drone deliveries after receiving Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to make beyond-visual-line-of-sight deliveries. The company said the approval allows Amazon Prime Air to continue expanding its drone delivery service to more locations across the U.S. “We’re excited to share that the FAA has given Prime Air additional permissions that allow us to operate our drones […]
Partner content AI cyber threats force 75% of firms to change security strategies 5th June 2024 Cybersecurity teams are revamping their strategies to keep pace with emerging AI-based threats targeting businesses, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct. Deep Instinct’s Voice of SecOps report surveyed 500 senior cybersecurity experts from companies with more than 1,000 U.S.-based employees. The report found that 75% of respondents changed their cybersecurity strategy in the past […]
Partner content Network ‘issue’ smacks AT&T, while T-Mobile sees opportunity 5th June 2024 AT&T reported an “issue” this week that affected some calls between its customers and customers of another, unnamed operator. AT&T said it was not a nationwide outage, but the incident yet again raises the specter of networking troubles for the company. The situation earned AT&T another round of public relations headaches: “After second outage this […]
Partner content Responsible AI in energy: Balancing efficiency, sustainability and trust in a high-stakes industry 5th June 2024 Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac is head of global partnerships and growth and Patrick McAndrew is member engagement and community manager at the Responsible AI Institute. As AI revolutionizes the energy industry, unlocking new opportunities for efficiency, sustainability and innovation, the need for responsible AI, or RAI, practices has never been more critical. The energy sector’s unique characteristics […]
Partner content Verizon follows AT&T into space 4th June 2024 Verizon plans to use the same satellite vendor – AST SpaceMobile – as AT&T in order to link its customers’ phones to satellites. Under Verizon’s new agreement with startup AST SpaceMobile, Verizon will pay the company a total of $100 million in order to ensure AST SpaceMobile’s satellites can make use of Verizon’s 850MHz spectrum. That will […]
Partner content When ‘No’ & ‘Good enough’ challenge cybersecurity 3rd June 2024 In the realm of cybersecurity, the path to securing necessary resources often is strewn with obstacles, chief among them hearing the word “no.” This response is not just about budgets, although financial constraints play a significant role; it’s also about convincing leadership of the indispensable value of comprehensive cyber defense strategies. The reality is, every […]
Partner content Google’s UniSuper snafu was a public-cloud warning to telcos 3rd June 2024 Earlier this month, Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion Australian pension fund called UniSuper, like a hungover teacher fumbling the wrong key and fatally erasing a student’s essay. The fund and all its contents were eventually rescued from the cloud dumpster, but for a week about half a million UniSuper members would have felt like they were […]
Partner content Utilities saw fewer Q1 ransomware attacks than other sectors. A Dragos analyst explains why. 2nd June 2024 Ransomware is “the foremost widespread cybersecurity threat impacting industrial organizations worldwide,” Abdulrahman Alamri, senior adversary hunter at Dragos, wrote in an April blog post analyzing global cybersecurity incidents in the first quarter. But the electric sector was relatively unscathed, notching just a single incident, compared with more than 100 attacks on the manufacturing sector. Utility Dive reached […]
News LMR licensing flat at low levels in 2023, but early 2024 business-industrial activity encouraging 31st May 2024 Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity remained relatively flat—albeit at historically low levels—in 2023, but early data this year indicates that business-industrial licensing could experience a significant uptick in 2024, according to figures available in the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. FCC officials granted just 3,020 public-safety LMR license during 2023, with another nine applications […]
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? 3 24th March 2024
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