pdvWireless CEO Morgan O’Brien told potential investors May 21 the company needs an additional $100 million to $150 million to carry out its 900 MHz realignment plan and offer broadband services in the spectrum. The company had $77 million cash on hand March 31.

The FCC requested comment on a petition for reconsideration filed in the FCC’s Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) docket.

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) negotiated a 900 MHz spectrum swap arrangement with pdvWireless, following an FCC proposal to realign the spectrum band for broadband operations.

For critical communications users, internet of things (IoT) suitability depends on the combination of all the individual IoT elements in the chain. Learn how one utility deployed IoT technology during a four-year pilot.

There is widespread disagreement among public-safety groups and industry on the best way to deliver indoor wireless location data for 9-1-1 calls to dispatch centers from wireless providers based on comments filed with the FCC.

An AT&T executive said the company expects to hit its next two First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) buildout milestones at least six months in advance.

Regional wireless operator C Spire is offering a free public-safety data priority service designed to help local and state emergency first responders send and receive critical mobile data communications during a crisis or natural disaster.

Inmarsat selected Airbus Defence & Space as its satellite manufacturing partner as part of a ground-breaking development of its Global Xpress (GX) network. The partnership will provide a step-change in GX’s capabilities, capacity and agility for the benefit of existing and future Inmarsat customers, partners and investors.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) announced two new band 14 cell sites — one on the Red Cliff Reservation in Wisconsin and one in Preston County, West Virginia.

Catalyst Communications Technologies was awarded a contract valued at up to $1 million by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to develop an interworking solution to enable mission-critical communications between first responders using LMR systems and cellular devices over Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks with push-to-talk (PTT) applications. This contract is a phase two award and extends the research and development (R&D) activities initially funded by DHS in a phase one award in 2018.