Buttigieg outlined six principles that will inform his department's support of transportation technology, but says nothing about C-Band tensions between the FAA and wireless carriers
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg popped into this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), albeit virtually, to discuss the criticality of technology in...
In December, AT&T and Verizon agreed to pause their C-Band plans following warnings issued by the FAA that the 5G spectrum could interfere with aviation safety systems
50 U.S. airports have been given 5G buffer zones per an agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and AT&T and...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved another wave of Emergency Connectivity Fund program funds. The $603 million will help to connect more than 1.4 million students in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
According to the agency, this latest round of funding decisions...
The Federal Communications Commission has begun a proceeding to figure out the future of the Universal Service Fund, which is funded through a slice of telecom carriers' revenues that is passed along to consumers through line-item bill charges.
Congress directed the agency to start...
As a counterpoint to the drive towards lights-out industrial automation, and its own role in it as supplier of sundry Industry 4.0 componentry – including, as of last week, private 5G pyrotechnics and an expanded IoT arsenal – Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking...
Rosenworcel's FCC advocacy has focused on expanding broadband access among other priorities
The U.S. Senate today voted 68 to 31 to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as the first female chair of the FCC, and the first official chair of the regulatory body under the Biden Administration....
Public sessions to gather stakeholder input will begin next week
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is tasked with turning $65 billion in funding into programs that will make broadband services available and affordable to all Americans, plans to hold a series of public...
Amid anticipation for the freshly passed $65 billion in funding for broadband expansion, a new report from CTIA estimates that 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband could serve nearly half of rural households in the U.S.
According to the report, Accenture reckons that 43% of rural...
Reliability of broadband service is the single most important characteristic to consumers and definitely more important than speed, according to a new survey from the Fiber Broadband Assocation.
A full 78% of respondents said that the most important aspect of broadband was that it...
Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the end of the second half of the 2021/22 financial year, up from 112 million...
Auction now shifts to an assignment phase for individual spectrum blocks
The 3.45-3.55 GHz auction of 100 megahertz of midband spectrum has wrapped up its first phase after 151 rounds, raising $21.888 billion in bids and making it the third-highest grossing auction that the agency...
A new estimate from CCA and CostQuest pegs the cost of deploying 5G in places that carriers are unlikely to build out commercially
What would it take to cover the entire geographic United States with 5G, beyond the commercial coverage that is already planned?
About...
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discusses the $65 billion in broadband funding
While the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal that has passed Congress has yet to be signed, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo spoke yesterday about the planning that is already going on to prepare for...
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal that has been passed by Congress will put $65 billion into broadband expansion, affordability and middle-mile infrastructure, alongside other investments in transportation infrastructure, electric vehicle infrastructure, public transit and environmental clean-up, as well as electrical grid modernization.
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Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms market. Telecoms vendor Ericsson, chorusing the message from telecoms operator Vodafone a couple of...
The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to be followed by a second private 5G showcase before the year is out in...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Defense are weighing what 5G-related prize challenges might look like, drawing in comments from industry.
In January of this year, NTIA put out a notice of inquiry on behalf of the DoD, asking...
President Joe Biden has designated Acting Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC officially, while nominating a fifth commissioner to fill out an empty seat and a new assistant secretary at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Rosenworcel will be the...
In an address to the Free State Foundation, Federal Communications Commissioner Nathan Simington continued a conversation that he says has "ruffled a few feathers": Receiver standards.
In his remarks, Simington relayed a number of the points that he says have been raised to him...
Meanwhile, new third-party analysis finds that 22.5% of US households don't have home internet and more than a quarter million still rely on dial-up
The Federal Communications Commission says it is set to authorize nearly $164 million to 42 providers in a second round of...
Between device hijacking, data breaches, and intellectual property theft, there are many known risks associated with a cybersecurity compromise in internet of things (IoT) applications. At the same time, many are excited about the potential IoT offers across enterprise use cases – and for...
The Federal Communications Commission is taking a new look at the spectrum needs of public safety and the internet of things, and the agency officially rescinded rules passed under the Trump administration that would have allowed state-by-state leasing of 50 megahertz of spectrum at...
Interest margin on $2 billion Ericsson credit line is tied to sustainability KPIs
Sustainability, aspects like power consumption of 5G networks and the applications those networks support that can boost environmental outcomes, is quickly emerging as a key messaging point for the telecoms and technology...
The program reimburses carriers with fewer than 10 million customers for removing Huawei and ZTE gear from their networks
The Federal Communications Commission will start accepting applications on October 29 for reimbursement for Huawei and ZTE network gear, as part of its $1.9 billion rip-and-replace...
