DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Government & Military, AT&T
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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FCC approves EchoStar's $40bn spectrum sales to AT&T, SpaceX
The regulator says the sales will boost competition while enhancing D2D rollout
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AT&T agrees $2bn deal to upgrade FirstNet
Will invest $1bn, while also helping to reduce costs by the same amount for the first responders network
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FCC regains ability to auction off spectrum after more than two years
Legislation in Trump's new One Big Beautiful Bill paves the way for mobile carriers to deploy more spectrum
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USAID chaos puts cloud and telco contracts at risk
Hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts up in the air
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AT&T can't hang up on California's landline customers, rules CPUC
Carrier is told that it must continue its obligation as COLR in the state
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Verizon urges FCC to not gift 4.9GHz spectrum to AT&T via FirstNet
Suggests an auction be held instead
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NTIA awards Verizon and AT&T-led Open RAN consortium $42 million
It's the last grant to be awarded as part of the $1.5bn program
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US Senator Markey wants answers from USTelecom over toxic lead cabling report
Wants to know what the telcos will do in response
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US not planning to extend 5G airplane retrofit deadline
Could cause chaos and potentially see some planes grounded
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AT&T pairs with Lockheed Martin to test 5G capabilities for helicopter data transfer
The tests were carried out to improve aircraft readiness
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IBM told to pay BMC $1.6bn for stealing AT&T mainframe software account
"IBM’s conduct constitutes 'intentional wrongdoing,'" judge says