Three AT&T executives held two meetings with FCC staff last week, encouraging the commission to dismiss the petitions filed by the Boulder Regional Emergency Telephone Service Authority (BRETSA) calling for interoperability and FCC oversight of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate’s (S&T) updated its Information Sharing Assessment Tool (ISAT). Updates include optional scenarios and expanded question sets.

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Two Anterix representatives spoke with officials in the FCC’s Office of Economic and Analytics about “methodologies the FCC might use to address the value of spectrum in the FCC’s inventory and evolution in 900 MHz band technology.”

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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Industry Specification Group on Securing Artificial Intelligence (ISG SAI) appointed Alex Leadbeater from British Telecom (BT) as its chair. Kate Reed with the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) was appointed first vice chair, and Tieyan Li from Huawei was appointed second vice chair.

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The FCC certified four spectrum access aystem (SAS) administrators, paving the way for full commercial operations in the 3.5 GHz band. Last year, the FCC approved these SAS administrators for initial commercial deployments, and the current action allows for full commercial use of the 3.5 GHz spectrum for broadband connectivity and 5G.

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Australia’s government officials and industry leaders gathered to discuss network resilience during the country’s severe bushfires, noting that access to power was critical. Most network outages following the bushfires were because of loss of power, not direct bushfire damage to network facilities.

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The Ad Hoc Refiners Group met with FCC officials to discuss the proposal to realign the 900 MHz band to establish a Long Term Evolution (LTE) operations. The group highlighted challenges in securing narrowband 900 MHz channels in high-density markets.

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Members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure told the FCC they are alarmed by its proposal to reallocate more than half of the 5.9 GHz spectrum (Safety Band) to unlicensed operations, such as Wi-Fi. The FCC's proposal undercuts the potential to prevent many of the 37,000 traffic fatalities each year by impeding the development and deployment of safety-critical technologies, a letter said.

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Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. and Rep. Greg Walden sent a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) urging the government watchdog to conduct an updated review of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) federal spectrum management processes.

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Syniverse and AiRXOS, a wholly owned subsidiary of GE Aviation, announced they are working together to provide a communications infrastructure that manages drones and other unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating at low altitudes.

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