Policy

FTC commissioner called former AT&T practice essentially ‘scammed’ unlimited customers This week AT&T agreed to settle a 2014 complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that alleged the carrier “failed …

Network operators CenturyLink and West Safety Communications have settled with the Federal Communications Commission over violations of FCC rules due to a 911 service outage. The two companies agreed to …

Satellite operators have sweetened the pot, offering to voluntarily clear an additional 100 megahertz of C-Band spectrum, as the Federal Communications Commission continues to mull the band’s future. In a …

FCC meeting will address wireline competition, public safety & homeland security and media The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold an open meeting at the end of this week. The …

Indian carriers have been busy conducting trials and implementing 5G-ready equipment For some time, it was looking as if India’s 5G spectrum auctions would take place by the end of …

The policy is the technology and the technology is the policy. That is the truth of city governance in the digital age, says Gartner. Any government services delivered at scale …

Fifteen smart city networks and tech governance groups, representing 200,000 public and private sector organisations in the smart cities space, have joined together to establish global policy standards for the …

Only about 40% of mobile phone users want their carriers to automatically block all calls from numbers not in their contacts list — but that number nearly doubles for calls …

FCC commissioners react to ruling that largely upholds the repeal, but strikes down preemption of net neutrality rules by states and cities A federal appeals court ruling on the Federal …

“Hallelujah!” says Commissioner Michael O’Rielly The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved a proposal for rules governing the auction of Priority Access Licenses in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio …

FCC Chairman: “It’s outrageous that a company would claim millions of taxpayer dollars for doing nothing.” Sprint has allegedly received tens of millions of dollars in federal Lifeline subsidies for …

What is Project BroadWay? About a decade ago, the European Commission started having formal conversations around TETRA and the future of public safety communications networks. This led to the formation …

The Huawei network security panel highlighted equipment verification, operation transparency and global standards In what appeared to be a direct response to the U.S.’ continued suspicion of Huawei Technologies and …

FCC Chairman urged to review China Telecom and China Unicom domestic operations Two U.S. senators asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and national security agencies to review whether Chinese state-run telecom operators …

Earlier this month, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration laid out the current spectrum landscape: what has been recently accomplished, what happening now and what is in the pipeline for …

Qualcomm got a reprieve when the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed the decision of United States District Court for the Northern District of California’s (DC) in …

European public safety market IoT growth rates are generally pegged at 15% Terrorism, natural disasters and humanitarian crises are all realities which shape public safety and disaster response in the …

Final federal approval for Initial Commercial Deployment (ICD) of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service is expected to come any day, and Federated Wireless says it has more than 20 customers …

FCC rural broadband grants total $67.6 million in 10 Oregon counties The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $67.6 million in affordable broadband funding in Oregon as part …

Hurricane Dorian, broadband funding and 3.5 GHz for 5G among FCC meeting topics The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) open meeting, scheduled for Sept. 26th, is fast approaching, and in preparation, …

Germany is to pump €40 billion into digital transformation of its old coal-mining regions, to drive enterprise and employment as coal mining is phased out in the country. New legislation …

Satellite operator Eutelsat has withdrawn from the C Band Alliance, a group which includes the four largest global satellite operators and has been advocating for privately handling the clearing and …

Will escalating dispute bifurcate global trade? SAN FRANCISCO–President Trump, to the detriment of some U.S. businesses, continues to escalate tariffs on Chinese goods and even went so far as to …

700 MHz, 3.6 GHz and 26 GHz are “pioneer” 5G bands in European Union While European regulators have articulated plans to auction millimeter wave licenses, all of the current and …