This week, I'm joined by Dominique Lazanski, a consultant who deals mostly in international Internet governance and cybersecurity policy. Dominique talks about China's push to create a less centralized global internet based on native products that reflect China’s policy agenda, and critically, where 5G...
Romanian has signed-off on a bill to ban Huawei, other Chinese vendors from its 5G networks
Romania can now be added to the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that is moving to deny Huawei and other Chinese vendors from involvement its 5G network...
WISPA exec called the infrastructure plan 'right on target'
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden introduced a monumental $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that aims to reshape the American economy. The infrastructure plan is far reaching, and includes, among many other things, $174 billion for electric vehicles,...
Globally, telecoms spent over $8 billion in 5G infrastructure last year, while in the U.S. alone operators spent more than $80 billion on 5G spectrum. The key to unlocking a return on investment will depend on how effectively telecom service providers can monetize those...
Cathy Borten is a legal associate at Miller, Miller & Canby in Rockville Maryland where her work in real estate transactions and leasing has revealed to her the policy and zoning challenges that telecom providers are up against as they seek to install 5G...
Xiaomi says the administration's claims of Chinese military ties are 'factually incorrect'
In his final days as the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump added nine Chinese companies, including smartphone maker Xiaomi, to a list of firms suspected to be owned or controlled...
Qualcomm is just one chip maker of many hoping to receive exemption from the Huawei ban
The U.S. government has granted permission for Qualcomm to sell 4G handset chips to Huawei. The news, confirmed by Qualcomm to Reuters, represents a slight exemption to U.S. trade...
SCOTUS upholds robocall ban, strikes down exception for government debt
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the 1991 law which bans robocalls to mobile phones, while striking down a 2015 exception which Congress passed to allow such robocalls for the collection of government debt.
"Americans passionately...
Team Telecom will now have 120 days to conduct national security reviews of license applications
Sporting the colloquial name “Team Telecom,” the new committee established by the Trump Administration via an executive order aims to enhance national security by assisting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
Switzerland's environmental agency will examine 5G antennas 'in depth, in real-world operational conditions'
In January, roughly 2,000 people turned out across Switzerland to protest the spread of 5G technology, and now, as the rest of the world pushes onward with rollouts, the country has placed...
By 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was the message from DigitalEurope, the trade association for the European tech industry, at the...
FCC meeting will address wireline competition, public safety & homeland security and media
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold an open meeting at the end of this week. The meeting will address a number of issues including wireline competition, public safety & homeland security...
The Huawei network security panel highlighted equipment verification, operation transparency and global standards
In what appeared to be a direct response to the U.S.’ continued suspicion of Huawei Technologies and its potential threat to U.S. network security, the Chinese equipment vendor sponsored a seminar at...
The design of some 5G auctions is
artificially inflating prices or inefficiently
distributing already scarce spectrum resources, industry association GSMA said
in a release.
“Auctions can and do fail when poorly designed,” said Brett Tarnutzer, head of spectrum for the GSMA. “We’re seeing a worrying trend of badly...
European Commissioner for digital economy and society Mariya Gabriel said during a keynote at MWC that Europe has to have a common approach to this issue
BARCELONA--European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel said the European Commission will soon bring a solution for...
A former head of the U.K. signals intelligence agency also said that there was no evidence of malicious Chinese state cyber activity through Huawei
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has concluded that the country has the tools to mitigate the potential risk from...
A number of European countries are analyzing the possibility of restricting Huawei’s ability to take part in 5G contracts over security allegations
The GSMA urged European policymakers to safeguard both network security and competition in the supply of telecom gear for the deployment of 5G...
CTIA says U.S. lags in making mid-band spectrum available
As the U.S. Senate prepares for a hearing on 5G, CTIA has released new analysis which estimates that making another 400 megahertz of mid-band spectrum available for 5G services would add $274 billion to the U.S....
In every new market, tech executives step into unknown territory. We’re watching the automotive IoT market with interest because it’s a wide-open business model. There’s a lot at stake in the automotive market, as safety is a key factor, and dealers, insurance carriers, mobile...
In the race to 5G, does it matter who wins?
WASHINGTON, D.C.--There has been a great deal of debate over which country is winning, or will win, the global race to 5G. But does it matter who is first in 5G?
That was one of the...
Most often, we read of differences between the United States and Canada, but in one area, the people of both nations agree: neither country can get enough of mobile wireless services. Consumers devour more mobile wireless data each year, and mobile operators beg the...
ZTE must pay up to $1.4 billion, replace its entire board of directors and senior leadership, and submit to a decade of embedded U.S. trade monitors in order to resume receiving exports from U.S. tech companies, in what the Department of Commerce is calling...
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $2.8 million fine against recreational drone company HobbyKing, for selling radio frequency transmitter devices for drones which operate in unauthorized RF bands and at higher power levels than allowed under U.S. rules.
HobbyKing operates in both the U.S....
Under the new deal, ZTE would pay a combined fine of nearly $1.7 billion
Chinese vendor ZTE has signed an agreement that would lift a U.S. Commerce Department ban on buying from U.S. suppliers, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
However, a Commerce...
