Month

September 2020
07
Sep

The pandemic is ruining our sleep. Experts say ‘coronasomnia’ could imperil public health.

September 7, 2020
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/03/coronavirus-sleep-insomnia/ Excerpt: As if the novel coronavirus has not already wrought devastation aplenty on the world, physicians and researchers are seeing signs it is doing deep damage to people’s sleep. “Coronasomnia,” as some experts now call it, could prove to have profound public-health ramifications — creating a massive new population of chronic insomniacs grappling...
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07
Sep

VIDAR: vibration detection and ranging

September 7, 2020
VIDAR uses telecommunication fibre-optic cables to detect vibrations. VIDAR is capable of capturing and analysing the tiny vibrations of nearby objects – such as cars, drills or even pedestrians – across large geographical grids using fibre-optic cables. The vibration readings are then analysed and categorised on FiberSense’s digital platform SuperSoniQ, which it provides to clients...
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07
Sep

Kenya caught in the Huawei 5G battle

September 7, 2020
Kenya has the most advanced internet and cellular services in eastern Africa. Now they want to move up to 5G, possibly using Huawei technology. But with Huawei banned in the US will they continue with their plans anyway? Link to post and video: https://p.dw.com/p/3i6Ff
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07
Sep

Azercosmos and Globecast extend partnership to deliver satellite services to Africa

September 7, 2020
Azercosmos, a leading satellite operator in the South Caucasus, has signed an extended partnership agreement with Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, to increase capacity and coverage across Africa. As a result of this expanded relationship with Azercosmos, Globecast is able to supply its customers across the continent with increased C-band capacity on the Azerspace-1...
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05
Sep

Leszczynski: Significant discrepancy of opinions on 5G and health between ICNIRP and the Health Council of the Netherlands

September 5, 2020
Posted on September 5, 2020 Snippet: This real scientific debate is not happening in ICNIRP where all members are selected to have the same opinion and the consensus is… given, and not an outcome of the real scientific debate. How it is possible that the same members of ICNIRP and of the Health Council of the Netherlands vouch for...
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05
Sep

SpaceX’s Starlink update: space lasers test

September 5, 2020
SpaceX gave a big Starlink update today:— Private beta testing shows "super low latency and download speeds greater than 100 [megabits] per second"— Connected 2 satellites to each other with "space lasers," transferring "hundreds of gigabytes of data" https://t.co/Aq8xWzaUY3— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) September 3, 2020 The test of the Starlink “space lasers,” also known as...
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04
Sep

California Researchers Sound the Alarm about Online Education during Pandemic, and Call for Big Changes in Policy and Practice

September 4, 2020
California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education. (2020). The Shift to Online Education During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Recommendations for California. Contributing authors include Christine Sleeter, Alison Dover, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Roxana Marachi, Kyle Beckham, Carol Batker, and Kevin Kumashiro. http://www.care-ed.org In this research brief, the California Alliance of Researchers for Equity...
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04
Sep

Mobile phone giant Vodafone suffers court defeat that could open door to wave of legal challenges by landowners that host 5G phone masts

September 4, 2020
By JAMIE NIMMO, FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 21:50 BST, 29 August 2020 | UPDATED: 01:58 BST, 31 August 2020 Mobile phone giant Vodafone has suffered a defeat in court that could open the door to a wave of legal challenges by landowners that host 5G phone masts.  Operators such as Vodafone pay landowners billions of pounds in rents every...
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03
Sep

City of Tucson & residents have zero control over cell pole placement

September 3, 2020
September 2, 2020 Allie Potter TUCSON (KVOA) – Looking at the small cell pole, it looks a lot like a light pole, but if you look a little closer, it is not. It is actually a wireless pole to provide faster speed internet and better cell reception. It sounds great right? Not exactly great news...
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03
Sep

DATE FOR THE ISSUING OF INVITATIONS FOR THE LICENSING OF HIGH DEMAND SPECTRUM AND THE WIRELESS OPEN ACCESS NETWORK

September 3, 2020
3 September 2020 Pretoria – The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA/the Authority) wishes to confirm to all stakeholders that the Invitation To Apply (ITA) for both the Wireless Open Access Network (WOAN) and the International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) spectrum, also known as high demand spectrum will be published no later than 30 September 2020....
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