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Zyxel Communications announced its 5G Fixed Wireless Access product portfolio is available for service providers and mass production will begin as soon as Q2 2020. The Zyxel FWA portfolio helps service providers leverage 5G NR technology to deliver high-capacity, premium broadband services, high-speed connectivity, enhanced network security, and deployment flexibility.

Flying Cloud Technology announces it has entered into an OEM relationship with Wireless Guardian. Providing protection to patrons and facilities, Wireless Guardian tracks both security and pandemic threats up to a mile outside the facility's perimeter.

Private network pioneer Federated Wireless announced that it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors. "Federated Wireless is the clear market leader in delivering spectrum as-a-service, turning what had previously been a high fixed cost asset - spectrum licenses - into a variable, price-per-connection service."

Sierra Wireless, the leading IoT solutions provider that combines devices, network services and software to unlock value in the connected economy, announced the appointment of Gregory L. Waters to the company's Board of Directors. "Greg's deep experience in business transformation in the semiconductor industry with IDT, Skyworks and Agere will be a great asset to Sierra Wireless as we continue our transformation to a solutions and services provider," said Robin Abrams, Board Chair, Sierra Wireless.

Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, launched the Keysight N9021B MXA X-Series Signal Analyzer which provides design validation and manufacturing engineers with superior phase noise performance at higher frequencies, and includes software that improves workflows while meeting 3GPP 5G new radio compliance standards. The new Keysight N9021B MXA X-Series Signal Analyzer offers an enhanced frequency sweep algorithm, accelerating test time improvements with uncompromising performance.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers' location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don't go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.

Cisco says it will release patches for wireless devices affected by the recently disclosed Wi-Fi chip vulnerability named Kr00k. Cybersecurity firm ESET revealed on Wednesday that over one billion Wi-Fi-capable devices were at one point affected by a vulnerability that can allow hackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from wireless communications.

Kr00k is a vulnerability that causes the network communication of an affected device to be encrypted with an all-zero encryption key. CVE-2019-15126 is particularly dangerous because it has affected over a billion Wi-Fi enabled devices - a conservative estimate.

New security tool from Bastille Networks can help security teams enforce no cell-phone zones. A new wireless detection platform from Bastille Networks allows companies to locate security threats from managed as well as rogue wireless, IoT, and cellular devices.

A Federal Communications Commission investigation found that one or more U.S. wireless carriers violated federal law by selling consumer location data to third parties, according to a letter FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sent to congressional lawmakers. The findings described in the letter came from an investigation the FCC launched after the New York Times in 2018 reported about how the biggest wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, were giving real-time location data to third-party companies.