The third-quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Plenary e-meetings of 2021 recently concluded. Participants spent considerable time on preliminary scoping of the Release 18 (R18) feature content and schedule.

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Nextel Co-Founder and Anterix Executive Chairman Morgan O’Brien proposed using 5G spectrum aggregation to help secure future spectrum for private LTE services.

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For many of us when it comes to receiving information or news about a particular issue, it’s common to hear someone say something related to the phrase first used by King James I of England in 1616 when he said, “No news is better than evil news,” or as later modified “No news is good news.”

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The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and investment shows no sign of abating; it is projected to grow from $50.1 billion worldwide in 2020 to more than $110 billion annually by 2024. The promise of machine intelligence is understandably tantalizing for every industry, promising to unlock a range of impacts that will transform the way people everywhere live and work.

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The Ending 9-1-1 Fee Diversion Now Strike Force delivered its report on how to end 9-1-1 fee diversion to the FCC and Congress.

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The U.S. House introduced a budget reconciliation bill that includes funding for next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) funding.

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COVID-19 cases are surging as a result of the fast-spreading Delta variant. Slowing vaccination rates and large gatherings are also contributing to the strain’s rapid rise, threatening a return to normalcy. On top of that, guidance and recommendations are changing yet again, along with concerns about the rise of mental health issues, leaving people uncertain about what they should do to protect themselves and their loved ones.

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T-Band has always been somewhat of a complicated spectrum resource in which to conduct frequency coordination. The band was made available about fifty years ago, before propagation prediction and other spectrum management tools were widely available as they are today. Consequently, the FCC adopted license assignment rules based on what they knew back in the early 1970s. Systems were analog, channels were 25 kHz wide, and deploying trunking technology was not yet a routine system decision. Protocols adopted by the FCC may have made sense 5o years ago, but not so much today.

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L3Harris and the Florida Department of Management (DMS) signed a contract for the deployment of the long-delayed new Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS).

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Securing the funding required to purchase, upgrade and maintain public-safety equipment can be daunting. The landscape of public grant dollars is vast, but knowing how to navigate it can provide numerous benefits to your public-safety agency.

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Wireless carriers and public-safety organizations weighed in on the FCC’s proposal for changing its rules governing notification of disruptions to 9-1-1 service to public-safety answering points (PSAPs).

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With an eye toward better serving the public with data, numerous counties in western Pennsylvania embarked on an initiative that not only accomplished that goal but also put them on the path toward a regional next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 911) capability.

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Following the unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many future investment strategies for upgrading communications technology in the transport and logistics sector will have had their brakes put on. However, the reopening of the economy when individuals will once again be able to travel safely, and when global supply chains can get back up and running to pre-pandemic levels, will be a time to consolidate, not stand still.

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The second quarterly Third Generational Partnership Project (3GPP) Plenary e-meetings of 2021 recently concluded. The group focused on the completion of Release 17 (R17) stage 2 (architecture) work and preparation for prioritization of features for R18. The group declared the stage 2 work frozen, while allowing some work items to continue into the third quarter of 2021. At this time, the R17 stage 3 (protocol) freeze date remains on schedule for March 2022.

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Drones have been in the public eye for many years now. Still, the COVID-19 pandemic, which has flipped virtually every industry on its head and accelerated the rate of digital disruption globally, is also changing how we as a society perceive the use of this technology.

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