BROWSING: Policy

Industrial IoT is the answer to good and green business, says everyone – says ABB

Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money where their mouths are, and investing in industrial IoT. That is the message, effectively,...

NTIA to host webinars on navigating new broadband funding

As the federal government gears up to distribute the $65 billion in broadband funding that was passed in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has set up a series of webinars to inform prospective applicants about the...

FCC: $5.6 billion requested for network rip-and-replace program

Small and rural network providers have made initial requests for $5.6 billion in funding in order to replace network equipment and services from Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE in domestic networks. That figure far outweighs the nearly $1.9 billion which Congress has appropriated for...

FCC set to dole out $1.2 billion in RDOF program funds

New RDOF awards are the program's largest wave yet The Federal Communications Commission is set to award another $1.2 billion through its Rural Digital Opportunities Fund, after an overhaul that the agency says improves its ability to make sure that companies actually deliver the rural...

AT&T, Verizon go ahead with C-Band spectrum light-up

An airline group has predicted that flight impacts will be 'incalculable' AT&T and Verizon both confirmed this morning that they have gone ahead with their planned activation of the use of C-Band spectrum, amid dire warnings from the an aviation industry group earlier this week...

FAA eases 5G C-Band restrictions, clears some planes for low-visibility landings

An estimated 45% of the U.S. commercial fleet has been cleared for low-visibility landings at some airports where 5G C-Band will be deployed, says the FAA Days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued more than 1,400 warnings to pilots about the possibility that on-board...

Another $361 million in emergency broadband funding heads out the door

The Federal Communications Commission has made another $361 million in funding commitments, in a seventh wave of funding for the Emergency Connectivity Fund for schools and libraries. The program has committed funds for nearly $4.2 billion to date. This round will fund more than 313,000...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg glosses over C-Band delay in CES keynote

Buttigieg outlined six principles that will inform his department's support of transportation technology, but says nothing about C-Band tensions between the FAA and wireless carriers U.S. Secretary of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg popped into this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), albeit virtually, to discuss the criticality of technology in...

FAA publishes list of airports that will have C-Band buffer zones

In December, AT&T and Verizon agreed to pause their C-Band plans following warnings issued by the FAA that the 5G spectrum could interfere with aviation safety systems 50 U.S. airports have been given 5G buffer zones per an agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and AT&T and...

FCC sends out another $603 million in emergency connectivity funds

The Federal Communications Commission has approved another wave of Emergency Connectivity Fund program funds. The $603 million will help to connect more than 1.4 million students in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. According to the agency, this latest round of funding decisions...

FCC opens conversation on the future of the Universal Service Fund

The Federal Communications Commission has begun a proceeding to figure out the future of the Universal Service Fund, which is funded through a slice of telecom carriers' revenues that is passed along to consumers through line-item bill charges. Congress directed the agency to start...

AWS stumps up $10m to plug industrial AI skills gap, make ML jobs accessible to all

As a counterpoint to the drive towards lights-out industrial automation, and its own role in it as supplier of sundry Industry 4.0 componentry – including, as of last week, private 5G pyrotechnics and an expanded IoT arsenal – Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking...

Senate confirms Jessica Rosenworcel to chair the FCC

Rosenworcel's FCC advocacy has focused on expanding broadband access among other priorities The U.S. Senate today voted 68 to 31 to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as the first female chair of the FCC, and the first official chair of the regulatory body under the Biden Administration....

NTIA to hold ‘listening sessions’ on new broadband programs

Public sessions to gather stakeholder input will begin next week The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is tasked with turning $65 billion in funding into programs that will make broadband services available and affordable to all Americans, plans to hold a series of public...

5G FWA could serve nearly half of rural households, CTIA report finds

Amid anticipation for the freshly passed $65 billion in funding for broadband expansion, a new report from CTIA estimates that 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband could serve nearly half of rural households in the U.S. According to the report, Accenture reckons that 43% of rural...

Survey: Reliability more important to broadband customers than speed

Reliability of broadband service is the single most important characteristic to consumers and definitely more important than speed, according to a new survey from the Fiber Broadband Assocation. A full 78% of respondents said that the most important aspect of broadband was that it...

Vodafone adds 24m IoT SIMs in 12 months, tips EU’s Covid recovery plan for new growth

Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the end of the second half of the 2021/22 financial year, up from 112 million...

3.45 GHz auction clock phase wraps up at nearly $22B

Auction now shifts to an assignment phase for individual spectrum blocks The 3.45-3.55 GHz auction of 100 megahertz of midband spectrum has wrapped up its first phase after 151 rounds, raising $21.888 billion in bids and making it the third-highest grossing auction that the agency...

Truly national 5G? It’ll take an extra $36 billion and another 37k sites, CCA report estimates

A new estimate from CCA and CostQuest pegs the cost of deploying 5G in places that carriers are unlikely to build out commercially What would it take to cover the entire geographic United States with 5G, beyond the commercial coverage that is already planned? About...

‘We have to close the digital divide, period’: Commerce Secretary gives some additional details on broadband implementation

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discusses the $65 billion in broadband funding While the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal that has passed Congress has yet to be signed, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo spoke yesterday about the planning that is already going on to prepare for...

Infrastructure deal to pump $65 billion into broadband programs

The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal that has been passed by Congress will put $65 billion into broadband expansion, affordability and middle-mile infrastructure, alongside other investments in transportation infrastructure, electric vehicle infrastructure, public transit and environmental clean-up, as well as electrical grid modernization. "I...

Buy more 5G kit or miss your CO2 targets – says 5G kit vendor, in warning to Europe

Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms market. Telecoms vendor Ericsson, chorusing the message from telecoms operator Vodafone a couple of...

Scotland starts private 5G rollout in bid to add £17bn GDP and 160,000 jobs

The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to be followed by a second private 5G showcase before the year is out in...

NTIA, DoD mull 5G prize challenges

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Defense are weighing what 5G-related prize challenges might look like, drawing in comments from industry. In January of this year, NTIA put out a notice of inquiry on behalf of the DoD, asking...