Inspired by @GlenEchoGroup, we're celebrating recent anniversaries with custom bobbleheads. 🎉
Congrats @bradleyj24, rocking his Birks, on his one-year, and @beneva_schulte, flexing her fitness regimen, on her five-year! They proudly join @AaronAlberico's, which started it all.
Broadband Breakfast to Mark America250 With Telecom150, a Series on American Telecom
Online event series runs June 17, June 24, and July 1, tracing American communications from Bell's first telephone call to the age of artificial intelligence.
https://t.co/tk3utl9Hcw
Live from the hearing: In Mariam Sorond's opening statement, she highlighted the company’s 20+ years focused on strengthening America’s #PNT resilience.
With more than 150 patents in PNT & location technologies, NextNav brings deep technical expertise to help solve a national security challenge. #GPS
We rely on GPS every single day, but we lack a backup system in case of failure.
Today’s C&T hearing focused on how America can create a redundant positioning, navigation, and timing system to protect everyday life in case of military attack, jamming by nefarious actors, or other failure.
Read more about today’s hearing ⬇️
Happening now: NextNav CEO Mariam Sorond is testifying before the @HouseCommerce Subcommittee on Communications & Technology on the urgent need to strengthen America’s #PNT resilience. #GPS
Watch the hearing here: https://t.co/3RADeBK9YX
"We are attempting to command operations in a complex, three-dimensional world using flat, two-dimensional assumptions." - Boston Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn
Joe Finn: A Firefighter's Mayday on the Urgent Need for 3D Tracking on the Fireground
A veteran fire commander who lost two firefighters in a 2014 Boston blaze is urging the FCC to fast-track indoor 3D location technology.
https://t.co/gy1JQlIJyw
Every map, dispatch, and delivery starts with the same piece of data — where you are. #GPS helps the world find its place. But the world also needs to know where it is when GPS signals are unavailable, like indoors.
Check out NextNav’s side-by-side demonstration, showing how the company’s 5G-powered 3D #PNT solution can complement and backup GPS in places GPS signals can’t break through.
First in @business: @nabtweets is entering the market for GPS backup technology with a new startup, Merkhet Solutions. New CEO Sam Matheny will testify Thursday in a @HouseCommerce hearing on the tech, as will @NextNav CEO Mariam Sorond, Bloomberg has confirmed.
OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation continues to gain momentum. Today we welcome 21 new members across industry, research, and academia, strengthening our role as a neutral collaboration hub for open, cloud-native RAN innovation.
➡️Read the announcement here: https://t.co/AgDKyFnHpA
🚨New podcast launched: The Center Edge.
Tech policy gets made in the center. The rhetoric lives at the edge. This show is about both.
👇Episode 1 with Chair @BrendanCarrFCC is out now —drones, routers, satellites, and evolving Republican approaches to leading the agency.
On commercialization positioning and partner engagement, Sorond said NextNav is "in active dialogue with potential partners across not only wireless carriers, but also satellite operators and big tech,"
https://t.co/J9hh4m4BS4
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Breaking News: The Pentagon made public what it called “never-before-seen” files on UFOs. The initial images are murky and show what could be anything. https://t.co/oUEhlgbqOj