The New York Power Authority, the largest state public power group in the US, has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to experiment with private LTE at 900 MHz for industrial IoT and drone inspections.
The New York Power Authority has...
In a vote split along party lines, the Federal Communications Commission continued its press to minimize local barriers to network deployment by allowing excavation and deployment of equipment up to 30 feet beyond a site boundary without triggering additional review.
Republican commission members framed the...
The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with reform of Section 230 of the Communications Act, which shields social media companies from liability for the content its users post, but which conservatives say has allowed those platforms to unfairly censor them.
Chairman Ajit Pai made...
The coronavirus pandemic has placed schools across the United States in unprecedented circumstances. Thousands of schools are offering instruction exclusively online. Thousands more are operating with hybrid models that couple distance learning with time inside school buildings, an approach that likely will continue into...
Hurricane Delta has caused some communications network impacts across southern Louisiana, with five counties reporting that at least 24% of their cell sites and down and one 911 answering point is receiving 911 calls without location information.
According to numbers from the Federal Communications Commission's...
The Federal Communications Commission has voted along party lines to expand the use of the 4.9 GHz band, over objections from public safety users.
The 4.9 GHz spectrum, which consists of 50 megahertz (4.940-4.990 GHz), was designated for exclusive use by public safety for fixed...
Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission brought together a variety of Open RAN stakeholders for its Forum on 5G Open Radio Access Networks. While greenfield operators like DISH and Rakuten Mobile seemed steadfast in their conviction that Open RAN was ready to go...
The Trump administration has settled on a new Republican nominee to the Federal Communications Commission: Nathan Simington, a telecom lawyer who has been holding a senior advisor position at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration since June.
In August, the administration abruptly yanked the nomination...
The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has officially granted Dish Network until mid-2023 to meet build-out requirements for its AWS and lower 700 MHz spectrum holdings, although the March 2020 deadline for meeting build-out requirements in some of the spectrum has already passed....
Following up on White House and Department of Defense efforts to open up another 100 megahertz of midband spectrum for mobile networks, the Federal Communications Commission is set to vote later this month on plans for 3.45-3.55 GHz.
Chairman Ajit Pai announced yesterday that he...
As many organization turn to tech to help in adjusting to operating during a global pandemic, the Federal Communications Commission has granted the National Football League permission to temporarily use C-Band spectrum during the 2020-2021 football season for low-power, body-worn wireless sensors for players...
Germany has issued 67 local spectrum licences for private LTE and 5G to enterprises since November 2019. What should we make of this number, and the run-rate so far for industrial-grade cellular in the home of Industrie 4.0?
Because 67 does not sound like that...
The CBRS Priority Access License auction has concluded after 76 rounds and raising more than $4.58 billion in bids.
The auction of spectrum at 3.55-3.65 GHz, which began July 23, was the single largest auction by number of licenses that the Federal Communications Commission has...
Prominent industry leaders Inseego (device/endpoint), Qualcomm (chip) and Cisco (infrastructure) weigh in on the impact of rapidly evolving government policy – including recent actions such as U.S presidential orders tied to foreign telco entity licensing and the call for the “rip and replace” of...
As the Priority Access License auction closes out another week of bidding, the focus of bidders has narrowed, with fewer than 100 licenses still in contention.
Bidding in the Priority Access License auction moves to four rounds today; four additional rounds are scheduled for Monday.
After...
White House and Department of Defense officials have announced plans to commercialize another 100 megahertz of highly desired midband spectrum for terrestrial 5G use, with an auction happening as soon as next year.
The airwaves from 3.45 GHz-3.55 GHz are adjacent to the Citizens Broadband...
In an unexpected move, the Trump administration has abruptly withdrawn its re-nomination of Michael O'Rielly to the Federal Communications Commission, days after O'Rielly signaled that he was troubled by the prospect of First Amendment policing of social media companies' content.
It was O'Rielly's third nomination...
After 16 rounds, the Federal Communications Commission's Priority Access License auction has raised a little more than $1 billion in bids from its 271 qualified bidders.
The PALs with the highest prices as of the close of Round 16 are:
Los Angeles county, CA: $8.2...
The Priority Access License has raised nearly $832 million in bids after 13 rounds, including more than $56 million in the 13th round.
The auction continues to show an unusual bidding pattern, compared to typical auctions that are dominated by large mobile network operators focused...
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Setting sights on...
The Priority Access License auction was meant to be unlike anything the industry has seen before. The sheer number of licenses and their county-level size were designed to attract new types of companies to spectrum-holding and make it feasible for them to compete for...
The Priority Access License auction for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum begins today with a single, six-hour bidding period.
There are 271 qualified bidders participating in Auction 105, ranging from Tier 1 mobile network operators and cable companies to wireless internet service providers, electric...
The Federal Communications Commission has moved forward with and expanded requirements that mobile network operators provide vertical location information for wireless callers when they call 911, so that first responders can locate their position in multi-story buildings.
The FCC has been working on requirements around...
U.S. push against Huawei gaining traction in Europe
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun the process of drawing up a list of telecommunications equipment deemed to pose a security risk for the country as part of the agency’s efforts to limit the reach...
