For the first time in history, the Federal Communications Commission officially gets its first woman chairperson, as Jessica Rosenworcel is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Rosenworcel has been presiding as Acting Chairwoman, but her commission was expiring triggering the need for the Senate confirmation by the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Maryland State Sen. Kagan, leading a group of public safety experts, has released a fourth and final report last Thursday detailing what an NG911 deployment in the state must include to effectively deliver services to constituents. Not just from a technology side, but from a people resource perspective, reclassifying dispatchers as 1st Responders.

Consolidated Communications executives consider 2021 a “transformative year” for the company thanks to its partnership with Searchlight Capital Partners and its infusion of capital into the company. Another nail in the TDM coffin.

Artificial intelligence is destined to be one of the most disruptive innovations that the public safety industry is likely to see. It is quickly becoming an essential component in many industries, and that includes public safety. However, these are still the nascent stages of AI adoption, and with that, come challenges. One is the so-called “black box,” problem, where human operators overseeing a system do not fully understand why the algorithms are recommending a particular action.

Wireless carrier T-Mobile has been fined over $19M for failure to connect 23,000 Emergency 911 calls during a recent network outage. In addition to leased fiber failures, software routing misconfiguration are supposedly to blame.

While the bulk of the funding ($42.45 billion) allocated by the bill will go to the states for broadband grant programs, $14.2 billion has been dedicated to making an existing broadband subsidy program run by the Federal Communications Commission permanent.

In the late 1960s, rock 'n' roll invaded the UK skirting regulators by broadcasting from a ship in international waters. In the US with high-powered Pirate Radio stations sent FM signals across the border from Mexico, frustrating government officials. India is now targeting Elon Musk's #Starlink program from sending signals into the country. #AirWaveWars

With technology moving forward at lightning speed, following the relevant trends may become a blurry streak of news and information flooding your inbox. Here are 10 significant trends that we feel are important, and will have the biggest impact on IT technology in the immediate future. Many you will already know about, and have heard before, but others will be new. In either case their significance will be noted, and you can make a decision on their relevance to your line of work.

No Jitter Contributing Editor, Industry analyst, and TalkingPointz creator Dave Michaels provide his assessment on the recently announced Ericson acquisition of Vonage that will join the company's 5G offerings with Enterprise CPaaS. The question now in front of us is: As an industry, have we wandered back into the "valley of the giants"? Dave thinks that we just may have.

All my friends in the US, have a wonderful day giving thanks to our friends and families, on this Thanksgiving Day 2021.

More infrastructure investment to connect the unconnected on wired and wireless. Last week, investment firm Apollo Global Management unveiled a plan to deploy fiber to 3 million locations across the 20-state ILEC footprint that it acquired from Lumen Technologies earlier this year.