Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the March Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, March 16, 2022.

Details at http://fcc.gov/openmeeting

One of the goals of 6G internet will be to support one microsecond-latency communication. This is 1,000 times faster -- or 1/1000th the latency -- than one millisecond throughput. The 6G technology market is expected to facilitate large improvements in imaging, presence technology and location awareness. But hang on - 7G is right behind it!

The "Global Artificial Intelligence Market in the Telecommunication Industry 2022-2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global AI market in the telecommunication industry is projected to grow by $8.63 billion during 2022-2026, progressing at a compound annual growth rate of 47.33% during the forecast period.

Although Ericsson could not identify that any of its employees were directly involved in financing terror organizations, that doesn't rule out indirect payments after acknowledging potential money laundering as well as cash payments to intermediaries. The company says that several employees were terminated following the investigation, and several third-party relationships have now been terminated.

Fierce telecom’ Dianna Goovarets reports that Verizon bucked an industry trend when it decided to go with NG-PON2 rather than XGS-PON for its next-generation fiber upgrade, and an executive explained that call will make its life easier for years to come with NG-POPN2 by simplifying the network and easing its upgrade path.

Numeracle™ Inc. , the pioneer of Verified Identity™ for communications,  

announced the release of its third STIR/SHAKEN Implementation Report the report summarized voice service provider progress implementing the STIR/SHAKEN Caller ID Authentication Framework and Robocall Mitigation implementation count milestones since the September 28, 2021 deadline. Service providers have continued to comply with FCC mandates to implement STIR/SHAKEN by filing within the Robocall Mitigation Database,

It's not new that major solar events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can produce large geomagnetically induced currents on the earth's surface that will threaten terrestrial installations like the power grid and, in extreme cases, damage the electronics that power long haul fiber cables. But researcher Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi from the University of California Irvine states that the subsea cable industry underestimates the threat and is unprepared for it saying, "the networking community has largely overlooked this risk during the design of the network topology and geo-distributed systems such as DNS and data centers."

A 21-count indictment was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against Hytera for conspiring to steal DMR trade secrets from Motorola Solutions. Plus, as a result of a series of separate but related judgments, Hytera owes Motorola Solutions in excess of $670 million for royalties, attorney fees, and court costs. Although separate from the criminal and civil actions, then news has cast a question on the viability of operation of Hytera US, the new corporate entity after the recent bankruptcy of the company's US operations.

Of any major city in the U.S. Cleveland has the highest percentage of households without broadband internet accounts. Almost 53,000 Cleveland households — or 31% of the city's total — lack broadband subscriptions of any kind at any speed, including mobile data plans. Here is their solution to the problem.

First Net CEO Edward Parkinson celebrates a full decade of work on what is today FirstNet.

FirstNet, of course, is the First Responder Network Authority, an independent agency within the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

Their mission is to oversee the FirstNet network, which is specifically dedicated to US emergency responders and the public safety community.