U.S. / Canada

L3Harris Gains $500M Federal Anti-Jam Modem Contract

April 23, 2020 | Comments

The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded L3Harris Technologies a five-year, $500 million ceiling, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with an initial delivery order of $30.6 million for the Air Force and Army Anti-jam Modem (A3M).

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Union Pacific Railroad Deploys Fixed Wireless for Video Surveillance

April 23, 2020 | Comments

Union Pacific Railroad deployed RADWIN's portfolio of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions to monitor and manage hundreds of remote railyards located west of the Mississippi River in the central and western U.S. by implementing high-throughput video surveillance networks and connecting remote railyard buildings.

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Bender Elected LMCC President

April 23, 2020 | Comments

During its 2020 annual membership meeting April 22, the membership of the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) elected Klaus Bender of the Utilities Technology Council (UTC) as president of its board of directors for its 2020 – 2021 fiscal year.

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ESChat Gains Multiyear Broadband PTT Task Order from DOJ

April 23, 2020 | Comments

The Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded a multiyear task order worth a total of $1.77 million for broadband push-to-talk (PTT) service to ESChat.

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FCC Adopts New 6 GHz Rules Allowing Unlicensed Use Despite Industry Concerns

April 23, 2020 | Comments

As expected, the FCC adopted rules that make 1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band available for unlicensed use. These new rules will usher in Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi, and play a role in the growth of the internet of things (IoT), the FCC said.

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New Report Details Interference Limit Regime and Economic Effects

April 23, 2020 | Comments

A new report offers a detailed economic analysis of an interference limit regime. The report concludes that, under certain economic and regulatory conditions, an interference limit regime can improve the efficiency of radio system coexistence.

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FirstNet Subscribers Reach 1.3M; 12,000 Agencies

April 22, 2020 | Comments

AT&T announced the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) network is supporting more than 1.3 million FirstNet connections across more than 12,000 agencies in service. Those numbers are up since February, when AT&T said it had more than 11,000 public-safety agencies and organizations subscribing to FirstNet, accounting for more than 1.2 million connections nationwide.

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FCC Denies Public-Safety Agencies More Time to File Net Neutrality Comments

April 21, 2020 | Comments

The FCC denied a request from Los Angeles, Santa Clara County in California, Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District and New York City for a 60-day extension of the deadlines to comment in the net neutrality proceedings. The original deadlines in the proceedings were March 30 for comments and April 29 for reply comments.

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DHS Outlines Additional Initiatives to Help Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic

April 21, 2020 | Comments

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its latest initiatives to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including adding more than 65,000 priority telecommunications users.

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900 MHz Realignment Vote Set for FCC’s May Meeting

April 21, 2020 | Comments

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that a report and order to reconfigure the 900 MHz band for the deployment of broadband services and technologies is on the commission’s May meeting agenda.

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