The Utilities Technology Council (UTC) expressed concern with new FCC efforts to make it easier to deploy infrastructure for 5G and other wireless services. Specifically, a new FCC rule lowers the costs and restricts the time municipalities — including public-power utilities — have to review small-cellular device siting applications.

PT LEN Industri, an Indonesian state-owned company that provides electronic infrastructure with a focus on transportation, and Teltronic signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore a joint development of LEN’s European train control system (ETCS) and communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling system and Teltronic’s TETRA and/or Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.

A group of industry organizations continued to make their case for the need for the FCC to retain at least two priority access licenses (PAL) on a census tract basis in every market in the 3.65 GHz band.

NextEra Energy continues to “vigorously oppose” the proposal by Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) and pdvWireless to reconfigure the 896 – 901/935 – 940 MHz band for broadband operations. The Florida electric utility submitted to the FCC a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) that found the direct costs of reallocating the 900 MHz band in the parts of Florida served by NextEra’s subsidiary Florida Power & Light (FPL) will be $98 million.

The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR), a coalition of New York and Massachusetts aerospace and academic institutions, signed a multiyear collaboration agreement with Thales. The agreement supports NUAIR’s efforts to safely integrate unmanned aircraft systems into traditional, controlled airspace and supports its ability to conduct operations at its New York UAS test site’s 50-mile UAS traffic management corridor.

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau released an enforcement advisory, noting that it has observed that an increasing number of conventional retailers and websites that advertise and sell low-cost, two-way VHF/UHF radios that do not comply with the FCC’s rules. Many of the radios violate one or more FCC technical requirements, the commission said.

The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) is seeking comment on a request for waiver filed by Metrom Rail to allow it to install and operate an ultrawideband (UWB) positive train control (PTC) system.

The White House released its 2018 National Cyber Strategy outlining the steps the federal government is taking to advance an open, secure, interoperable and reliable cyberspace.

The FCC issued a notice of violation to New Jersey Natural Gas Co., licensee of private land mobile station WQOS285, operating at various locations in New Jersey including Rockaway, New Jersey.

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) released a new report that addresses how sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can be leveraged to address some information communications technology (ICT) challenges.