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Able to fly in tough conditions, AT&T’s all-weather Flying COW drone will help first responders, FirstNet. AT&T has designed an all-weather drone to keep its wireless network “flying” in a …

Last December, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in northern Virginia used a drone to help search for a 92-year-old hunter who had gotten stranded overnight in the woods. Within 20 …

Flexibility, scalability, time-to-market key drivers of SDN adoption Software-defined networking (SDN) provides the management and orchestration tools needed to operate increasingly complex and increasingly virtualized networks. For operators, SDN creates …

What is MCPTT over LTE? Mission-critical push-to-talk over LTE, or MCPTT over LTE, is an LTE feature that was first introduced in Release 13 in 2016 as the Third Generation …

Network sharing will become a standard tactic to establish dense in-building mobile coverage, with private enterprises increasingly taking charge of network operations, said AT&T at SCWS World in London. But …

Disruption of cable TV space is priority of a combined Sprint/T-Mobile US From an ongoing attempt to block the AT&T/Time Warner merger to concerted efforts to keep Chinese network infrastructure …

AT&T and Honeywell announced they are collaborating to deliver internet of things (IoT) technology to aircraft and freight solutions in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia. AT&T …

Integrated RF front end and certification from operators like Verizon and AT&T creates powerful development platform The internet of things (IoT) space is a dynamic market that lends itself to …

FirstNet build also supports growth in consumer market Using its deployment of FirstNet to provide a dedicated, nationwide network to first responders, AT&T can reach deeper into rural consumer markets …

As commercial 5G roll outs begin in volume during H2 2018 and into 2019, handicapping which operators or which countries will ‘win’ the race to 5G is ramping up IMHO, …

As DoJ blocks proposed AT&T deal with Time Warner, carrier’s SVP of External and Legislative Affairs resigns Looking for inroads at the White House amid a contentious merger proposal with …

Transport for London (TfL) has appointed UK civil engineering firm Lanes Rail to carry out maintenance work on the London Underground network using drones, as their usage in industrial settings …

As AT&T reported its quarterly earnings, CFO John Stephens expressed some reservations about the clarity of the business case for 5G fixed wireless access, and said that the operator is …

Day one of Brooklyn 5G Summit balances technical presentations with business-focused “reality check” from key tech buyers The Brooklyn 5G Summit is a deeply technical symposium held at New York University’s …

  Deal stipulates the deployment of 170 small cells on lampposts across the city AT&T and the city of San Jose have reached a tentative agreement to install a network …

Rural favorite LTE fixed wireless broadband — soon-to-be 5G —is forecast to grow 26% through 2022 The global fixed wireless broadband market will grow 30% in 2018 and generate $18 …

  Last week I gave an interview to NPR Marketplace and the conversation crystalized the question and answer of whether AT&T and Time Warner should merge. There is really only …

GSMA puts embedded SIM development on hold, pending DOJ inquiry The Department is Justice is examining whether AT&T and Verizon worked together to use GSMA-facilitated standards to hinder U.S. consumers’ …

In a lofty shared workspace in San Francisco, more than 200 developers and public safety officials recently gathered to work on developing new applications first responders. It was the first …

Contracts covering about 14,000 wireline employees at AT&T Midwest and AT&T Legacy T expired over the weekend, with workers remaining on the job as negotiations continue. That figure represents about …

5G trial in Waco will give way to commercial service this year Ahead of a planned commercial 5G service launch later this year, AT&T is continuing trial activities around the …

Edge computing essential to supporting 5G use cases For business and consumers, new use cases and applications dependent on low-latency network connectivity are driving computing power to the edge of …

Unlicensed networks, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, make up two-thirds of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks today, according to a study of 100 LPWA networks by IoT research firm ON …

Linux Foundation launches DANOS project The Linux Foundation recently introduced the Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS) project, with a code release slated for the second half of this year. DANOS …

Competition for public safety customers continues to heat up, with AT&T launching its network core for the First Responders Network Authority — and Verizon responding with the general availability of …