Policy

A new summary report / blog from UK5G, the government-backed innovation network dedicated to industrial 5G in the UK, makes for good reading. It concludes, ultimately, that industrial 5G is …

Europe battles skyrocketing energy costs as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues European service providers are preparing for the worst as power cuts threaten to down networks in the coming months. Telecom …

‘There are not a lot of easy bands left’ says NTIA senior advisor With both mmWave and midband 5G auctions concluded and development and/or deployment underway for existing spectrum releases, …

The federal government plans to spend $1 billion to expand so-called “middle-mile” connections between networks, as part of a $65 billion effort to build out broadband infrastructure and connect all …

First woman to lead ITU pledges to work toward “meaningful connectivity” The International Telecommunications Union has elected Doreen Bogdan-Martin as secretary-general, the first woman to lead the organization in its …

Amid renewed conversations around the re-authorization of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction authority for spectrum and what a new spectrum pipeline might look like, the Aspen Institute brought together government …

“Some speeds have shown signs of slowing down from their initial launches,” Ookla says of Starlink service Starlink’s commercial success is causing network slowdowns, benchmarking company Ookla concludes in new …

AWS, Microsoft and Google combined generate about 81% of revenues in the U.K. public cloud infrastructure services market British media regulator Ofcom has initiated an investigation into whether Amazon, Microsoft …

Ligado Networks has cancelled plans to begin a 5G trial network that would have operated in northern Virginia and was expected to begin operations shortly. Ligado had planned to begin …

Spectrum reallocation is only getting more complicated, as the airwaves get more crowded. There are certainly recent examples—the C-Band deployment delays and the ongoing dispute over Ligado’s spectrum use potentially …

There are three areas of focus for the FCC’s space efforts As space-based communications become ever more important and begin to converge with terrestrial wireless, the Federal Communications Commission is …

Tim Donovan, Lucy Hodas will take new CCA leadership positions in January 2023 The Competitive Carriers Association is seeing a shift in leadership: Longtime President and CEO Steve Berry is …

FCC had denied Starlink nearly $900 million in government funds Starlink is appealing the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to deny the company nearly $900 million in funding that it won …

Some of the most interesting IoT use cases on the conference circuit in the past months have been about wildfire monitoring. Through the heat of summer, as parts of Europe …

The FCC education funding will support more than 300 schools, 25 libraries and two consortia Roughly 170,000 students across the U.S. will benefit from the more than $81 million in …

Congress is considering landmark data privacy legislation Federal agencies are putting both carriers and data brokers on notice that they are looking more closely at companies’ use and sale of …

South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All …

Consumers can now file privacy-related concerns or complaints with the FCC The Federal Communications Commission is launching a new investigation into how mobile network operators use subscribers’ geolocation data. Chairwoman …

Meanwhile, the FCC continues to disburse Emergency Connectivity funds for schools and libraries The dispersal of federal broadband funds for Tribal areas is picking up steam, with the National Telecommunications …

Carr, the senior Republican on the FCC, claims that the agency exceeded its authority in denying RDOF funds to Starlink FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is criticizing the Federal Communications Commission’s …

Fiber-based broadband access is correlated with a number of aspects of quality-of-life A new report on the status of U.S. broadband looks at how fiber deployments are correlated with several …

Results of a NSF study on the FCC order is set to be released on September 9 A bipartisan group of Senators is again pushing for the Federal Communications Commission …

The Federal Communications Commission has made a required report to Congress on the future of the Universal Service Fund, and one of the most hotly debated portions of the record …

An appeals court has upheld the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to reallocate a portion of the 5.9 GHz band to unlicensed use, including Wi-Fi, rather than continuing to reserve the …

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in …