FCC fines the three major carriers $200 million
The Federal Communications Commission has levied fines of $200 million against the three national operators, saying that AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon illegally provided access to customers' location information without end-users' consent or sufficient safeguards.
AT&T faces...
Comtech Telecommunications said that it has finalized a $1.3 million contract expansion with an unnamed Tier 1 U.S. mobile network operator under which Comtech's Location Technologies group will support 5G location services for public safety and consumer applications.
Comtech's Location Technologies group's solutions include precise...
At least one wireless carrier broke federal law by selling wireless subscribers' real-time location data, the Federal Communications Commission has confirmed, and the agency plans to take action on the violations.
"The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has completed its extensive investigation and that it has concluded...
Test company Rohde & Schwarz and Qualcomm Technologies said that they have completed the first 5G New Radio location-based services session, with a Snapdragon X55 modem.
The 5G LBS testing consisted of successful verification of an assisted GPS (A-GPS) control plane LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP)...
TCS claims NFV will produce greater agility, lower operating costs
Telecom equipment and service vendors continue to heed the call of virtualization, adopting software-defined networking, network functions virtualization and cloud technologies into their product offerings.
The latest is TeleCommunication Systems, which said by the end of...
A newly published road map from the Public Safety Communications Research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology looks at the potential rewards and challenges associated with the use of location-based services in the public safety realm. It is the first such roadmap...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
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The market for mobile navigation and contextual search is switching gears due to new demands stemming from connected cars, wearable...
Mobile marketing company Urban Airship is partnering with location-based information company Gimbal to more precisely target users via geo-fencing and low-energy Bluetooth beacons as well as location history data.
Urban Airship was one of the first vendors to offer a third-party platform for developers to enable...
