Infrastructure planning grants are part of the 2021 infrastructure bill
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced dozens of planning grants to states in recent weeks, which will be used to support five-year plans for broadband deployments nationwide that are intended to ultimately make...
Twenty twenty-two was a year of tangible improvement when it came to robocalls. There were two main factors responsible for this decrease. First, Tier-1 carriers continued to progress with their STIR/SHAKEN implementations, which allowed for more visibility into bad actors’ tactics. Second, with an...
Failure to fund the FCC rip-and-replace program fully will lead to service shutdowns: Letter to Congress
The Competitive Carriers Association and seven other organizations are calling upon Congress to fully fund the costs associated with removing and replacing the equipment from foreign vendors which has...
The settlement includes global cross-license for patented cellular standard-essential technologies
Apple and Ericsson have settled their yearlong legal dispute over iPhone-related and other patents. The settlement involves a new multi-year global patent license deal and joint commitment to “strengthen their technology and business collaboration, including in technology, interoperability...
Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation
In order for unlicensed Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) devices to play nice in the 6 GHz band with the licensed users already occupying that band, the Federal Communications Commission...
Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...
Around the world, regulators are exploring various strategies to spectrum management that makes room for private network allocations. At the recent Private Networks European Forum event, representatives from regulatory agencies in the U.K. (Ofcom), Sweden (PTS) and Germany (Federal Network Agency, or BNetzA) discussed...
'To be vertical, you have to be perpendicular to something'
Around the world, regulators are exploring various strategies to spectrum management that makes room for private network allocations. At the recent Private Networks European Forum event, representatives from regulatory agencies in the U.K. (Ofcom), Sweden...
Around the world, regulators are exploring various strategies to spectrum management that makes room for private network allocations. At the recent Private Networks European Forum virtual event, representatives from regulatory agencies in the U.K. (Ofcom), Sweden (PTS) and Germany (Federal Network Agency, or BNetzA)...
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association (EUWENA), and Maria Cuevas, networks research director at UK-based...
The 'pre-production draft' map will undergo an 8-week period of challenges to its accuracy
The Federal Communications Commission has released its long-awaited new maps that lay out the extent to which broadband service options are available across the United States.
The map released online today...
Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to hail the “success” of the Citizens Broadband Radio...
New report draws sharp criticism from other industry groups, companies supporting CBRS
Amid ongoing Capitol Hill conversations about new spectrum allocations, a CTIA report attacks the efficacy of spectrum sharing and argues that the three-tiered Citizens Broadband Radio Service is struggling compared to exclusive-use arrangements....
'The next eight weeks are critical for our federal efforts to connect the unconnected,' says assistant secretary of commerce
The Federal Communications Commission plans to release newly updated broadband maps on November 18, and the Biden administration has announced that once those maps undergo an...
Federated Wireless has been conditionally approved as an automated frequency coordination (AFC) system operator by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to go alongside its role as gatekeeper for CBRS spectrum access for private cellular deployments in the US. The firm has already struck commercial...
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...
Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...
The FCC has received applications for 64,000 new satellites, said Chairwoman Rosenworcel
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reorganizing to better support the growing satellite industry by transforming the International Bureau into two entities: The Space Bureau and a standalone Office of International Affairs. According...
Spam texts are on the rise, TNS says
Broader implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN call authentication framework, coupled with enforcement efforts, have put a dent in robocall volumes compared to last year, according to a new report by TNS.
It's a small dent, to the tune...
New FCC proceeding looks at opening up to 550 megahertz of spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission is forging ahead with identifying potential new spectrum to repurpose for cellular systems and has launched a new inquiry into the use of up to 550 megahertz of spectrum...
AT&T and Verizon are already on board, but the FAA is worried about smaller operators and spectrum holders
When it comes to rolling out 5G C-band services, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to mandate that smaller Communication Service...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges and arrests this week in regards to Chinese clandestine activity in the United States that ranged from targeting Chinese residents in the U.S. with harassment and intimidation to get them to return to China, posing as university...
A U.S. subsidiary of global mobile virtual network operator and eSIM development company Truphone is paying a $600,000 penalty and divesting ownership by three Russian billionaires as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission over inaccurate disclosures of its ownership and transfer...
A newly released progress report goes over the state of federal users' transitions out of auctioned bands ranging from AWS-1 to CBRS and additional midband spectrum at 3.45-3.55 GHz.
The annual Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act report for 2021 was released earlier this month...
