The second annual TRX Championships gets underway today in Phoenix, AZ, with a series of tower-tech related challenges over a two-day event. The Tower Rodeo® Challenge 2021 will be live streamed so remote viewers can see seven teams consisting of tower technicians and first-responders competing in various scenarios that show […]
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The Senate Commerce Committee nomination hearing yesterday for Gigi Sohn, the President’s pick for the open Democratic seat at the FCC, was stormy compared to the relatively calm hearing for Jessica Rosenworcel last month. Rosenworcel is a known quantity to the Hill, having been an attorney for the committee before […]
AT&T and Verizon have offered to transmit at lower power around airports for six months on their new C-band spectrum. That’s to give the FAA more time to figure out a fix for potential interference from 5G operations on 3.7 GHz to the 4.2-4.4 GHz band, where aircraft radio altimeters […]
The Bring Your Own RAN™ (BYORAN™) program, just introduced by Athonet, gives enterprises a private network with flexibility to meet their specific needs. IT managers can control the private network from a single cloud-based dashboard, the company said. The Athonet cloud-based private network management system allows a company to choose […]
Drivers in Mississippi now have the option of storing their drivers license information in a secure digital format, reports OpenGov Asia. Using the Mississippi Mobile ID is voluntary, but has the support of the Mississippi Department of Safety. As Sean Tindall, DPS Commissioner, noted, “While Mississippi Mobile ID will be […]
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and T-Mobile reached a settlement to end an investigation into whether the carrier violated the agency’s 911 rules. Wireless carriers must reasonably design and operate their networks to ensure reliable transmission of all 911 calls, including providing 911 call back information and 911 location information, to […]
The push to provide broadband to rural areas may have inadvertently turned into a competition between fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and fixed wireless access (FWA). The wireless industry, determined to get its share of the broadband funding in the trillion-dollar Biden infrastructure legislation, made sure that data speeds in the measure would […]
Allfasteners today announced that any Raptor Radome Concealment Canister sold after this date will be covered by an industry exclusive 10-year warranty. The new warranty is backed by Allfasteners who, through ongoing quality initiatives, has yielded constant improvement on its Raptor Radome model, according to the company. “For customers, Allfasteners’ […]
Everest Infrastructure Partners visited Tower Engineering Professionals‘ (TEP) Raleigh Headquarters last week. The Management team from Everest wanted a hands-on experience climbing towers and understanding the details involved in tower work. “We spent time reviewing safety, acclimating to the climbing gear and then went up the towers. The team climbed both our Guyed Tower […]
With references to construction of the transcontinental railroad during the Civil War and building the interstate highway system during the Cold War, President Joe Biden signed the $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law on Monday just after 4:20 p.m. Eastern. “As we learned during the pandemic, access to high-speed internet […]