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Mission Critical & Emergency Program - Wireless Broadband Alliance Mission Critical & Emergency Program Advancing Emergency Services Communications in Challenging Environments Access the report and industry framework to understand how Wi-Fi 6/7 and OpenRoaming™ c...

"The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has launched its Mission Critical & Emergency Services Program... that define how Wi-Fi 6/7... can deliver reliable priority emergency calling & communications between the public, first responders & emergency organizations" - wballiance.com/mission-crit...

2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself! Some parts of the world still have ample 2G coverage; for those of in North America, 2G is long gone and 3G has either faded into dusk or beginning its …read more

2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself!

Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.

4 of 4: "It includes putting French President Emmaneul Macron in hair curlers & a pink robe, making Trump talk about golden toilets & showing EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen singing a Soviet-era pop song while working in a factory" - www.404media.co/r/d3cca8bc?m...

Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.

3 of 4: "'My task is to select all the political nonsense of the past week & fit it in your heads like candies in a little box.' The shows' title sequence & advertisements show gold wrapped candies bearing the faces of politicians... being sorted into a candy box" - www.404media.co/r/d3cca8bc?m...

Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.

2 of 4: "The show—called Политукладчик or 'PolitStacker,' according to a Google translation—airs every Friday on Zvezda, a television station owned by Russia's Ministry of Defense. It's hosted by 'Natasha,' an AI avatar modeled on Russian journalist Nataliya Metlina" www.404media.co/r/d3cca8bc?m...

Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.

1 of 4: "A television channel run by Russia’s Ministry of Defense is airing a program it claims is AI-generated. According to advertisements for the show, a neural network is picking the topics it wants to discuss, then uses AI to generate that video" - www.404media.co/r/d3cca8bc?m...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

US: 4 of 4: "In October 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General published a report that found ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service all broke the law when using location data harvested from phones" - www.404media.co/r/cbdcf5cf?m...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

US, 3 of 4: "The products the document is discussing are Tangles & Webloc... Tangles & Webloc used to be run by an Israeli company called Cobwebs. Cobwebs joined Penlink in July 2023... it is unclear whether use of the data will be limited to criminal investigations" www.404media.co/r/cbdcf5cf?m...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

US, 2 of 4: "The ICE document is redacted but says a product made by a contractor called Penlink 'leverages a proprietary data platform to compile, process & validate billions of daily location signals from hundreds of millions of mobile devices...'" - www.404media.co/r/cbdcf5cf?m...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

US, 1 of 4: ICE is "buying a powerful surveillance tool that contains location data remotely harvested... through normal apps or advertisements on your mobile phone... it provides an 'all-in-one' solution to using both location data & material taken from social media" www.404media.co/r/cbdcf5cf?m...

FCC Commissioner Gomez: Agency must define "public interest" requirement Speaking at an event on Thursday, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called on the agency to issue a rule that defines a broadcaster's public interest obligation.

US, 3 of 3: "'I have called for the commission to initiate a rulemaking to define what it means by the public interest,' Gomez said on Thursday. 'Otherwise, we're just regulating against what we don't like, and that is a direct violation of the First Amendment'." - thedesk.net/2025/10/fcc-...

FCC Commissioner Gomez: Agency must define "public interest" requirement Speaking at an event on Thursday, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called on the agency to issue a rule that defines a broadcaster's public interest obligation.

US, 2 of 3: "Gomez... said a lack of a firm definition on what constitutes the 'public interest' gave too much latitude for Carr and future FCC chairs to weaponize that requirement to satisfy their own political desires" - thedesk.net/2025/10/fcc-...

FCC Commissioner Gomez: Agency must define "public interest" requirement Speaking at an event on Thursday, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called on the agency to issue a rule that defines a broadcaster's public interest obligation.

US, 1 of 3: "The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) lone Democratic commissioner has called on the agency to put a firm definition on what it means for a local television or radio broadcaster to serve in the 'public interest'" - thedesk.net/2025/10/fcc-...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory to Outfit the VLBA with New Ultra Wideband Receivers - National Radio Astronomy Observatory The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is upgrading the NSF Very Long Baseline Array with new ultra wideband receivers spanning 8–40 GHz, expanding its scientific reach and enabling Ka-band observat...

NEW: NRAO to Outfit the VLBA with New Ultra Wideband Receivers

A major upgrade is coming to the NSF Very Long Baseline Array (NSF VLBA) – state-of-the-art ultra wideband receivers capable of operating across the frequency range of 8 - 40 gigahertz (GHz).

#RadioAstronomy #Astronomy #NRAO #VLBA

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

CPB irked with NPR after outlet tries to block $58 million in dispersements to new nonprofit National Public Radio filed a lawsuit against the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Friday to block $57.9 million in satellite funding redirection to a new nonprofit.

US, 2 of 2: "NPR moved for the restraining order against CPB... just hours after the corporation announced it would award up to $57.9 million over 5 years to a new nonprofit, Public Media Infrastructure (PMI)" - www.foxnews.com/media/cpb-ir...

CPB irked with NPR after outlet tries to block $58 million in dispersements to new nonprofit National Public Radio filed a lawsuit against the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Friday to block $57.9 million in satellite funding redirection to a new nonprofit.

US, 1 of 2: "National Public Radio (NPR) asked a federal judge last week to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) from redirecting millions in satellite funding to a newly formed nonprofit organized by a coalition of public media organizations" - www.foxnews.com/media/cpb-ir...

Party Crashers Storm Meeting to Demand Trump Lackey Be Fired Furious protesters crashed a Federal Communications Commission meeting on Tuesday to demand Chairman Brendan Carr’s firing. Trump-lackey Carr landed in hot water on Sept. 17 after threatening to revok...

US, 2 of 2: "Police escorted the demonstrators out of the /FCC/ conference room—but not before one woman slung one last insult at Carr. 'Hope you enjoy promoting a pedophile’s agenda!' she yelled before being forced out of the room" - www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Party Crashers Storm Meeting to Demand Trump Lackey Be Fired Furious protesters crashed a Federal Communications Commission meeting on Tuesday to demand Chairman Brendan Carr’s firing. Trump-lackey Carr landed in hot water on Sept. 17 after threatening to revok...

US, 1 of 2: "Furious protesters crashed a Federal Communications Commission meeting on Tuesday to demand Chairman Brendan Carr’s firing... Videos circulating on social media show a group of about a dozen demonstrators... chanting, 'Fire Carr the censorship czar!'' -
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes

Govt shutdown: "the Trump administration suspended all news broadcasts from Voice of America & furloughed all of its journalists, a break with past practice in funding lapses. The closure came 2 days after a judge reinstated about 500 of the broadcaster’s employees" - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

BBC now expects to close Radio 4 LW during 2026 The BBC now expects to close its flagship national radio service, Radio 4 on Longwave, at some point during 2026, a BBC contact has told the Campaign to Keep Longwave. The news comes in the month t…

UK: "The BBC now expects to close its flagship national radio service, Radio 4 on Longwave, at some point during 2026... however, an exact shutdown date for longwave has not yet been decided, as the BBC continues to carry out an impact assessment on the closure" -
keeplongwave.co.uk/2025/09/20/b...

Afghanistan gets the internet back 2 days after Taliban's unexplained web shutdown Afghanistan's Taliban rulers blocked internet access nationally for two days without any explanation, but suddenly, the country is coming back online.

"Internet services in Afghanistan came back online Wednesday, restoring vital communication and web connectivity for residents 2 days after the Taliban government blocked web access nationally without any explanation" - www.cbsnews.com/news/afghani...

"Afghanistan has entered a 2nd day of near-total internet blackout, after reports that nationwide fibre-optic services were cut as part of a Taliban crackdown on immorality... marking the first nationwide disruption since the Taliban seized power in August 2021" - www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Industry Groups Call for Change to Spectrum Sharing Limits In a letter sent to FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Monday, the writers said lifting equivalent power-flux density (EPFD) limits on non-geostationary sats would benefit both consumers and the industry.

US: "Officials from 11 industry organizations are urging the FCC to rethink spectrum limits for LEO satellites, which were imposed more than 2 decades ago in an effort to protect sats in geostationary orbit.... and enable spectrum sharing" - payloadspace.com/industry-gro...

Starlink looks to use Echostar spectrum for thousands of new satellites Company files for up to 15,000 satellites

"Starlink looks to use Echostar spectrum for... up to 15,000 satellites... to provide direct-to-cell (D2C) services... saying it would use the 2GHz spectrum it’s acquiring from EchoStar" - www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/star...

TRAI seeks comments from stakeholders to auction spectrum of 6 GHz and above TRAI consults on auctioning 687 MHz spectrum for IMT, including 5G/6G bands, with stakeholder feedback due by November 11.

"The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a consultation paper on Tuesday regarding the auction of 687 MHz of spectrum for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) /in/ the newly identified 6425-6725 MHz and 7025-7125 MHz bands" - www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/tr...

Trai revises stance on PMRTS spectrum, calls for shorter validity for 5 years Keeping spectrum validity long-term may prove counterproductive as narrowband demand and device ecosystems weaken over the next decade, TRAI said, recommending that spectrum be assigned for five years...

"The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has revised its earlier recommendations on spectrum allocation for Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service (PMRTS), advising that spectrum assignment be capped at 5 years instead of 20 years" - www.financialexpress.com/life/technol...

Telecom spectrum auctions see little competition. Regulator proposes a fix Aggressive bidding for spectrum has eased since 2021, with most of the airwaves sold near reserve prices. Trai suggests allowing entities like providers of internet services and connected data network...

"India's Telecom regulator has sought public views on whether other entities, like those providing internet services or large connected device networks, should be allowed to bid for spectrum along with wireless carriers to ensure competition during auctions" - www.livemint.com/industry/ind...