Sharon Fisher

Idaho’s Leading Business News Source

TWIN FALLS – T-Mobile will start providing the next generation of wireless telephone technology here. “The Twin Falls announcement shows that we’re continuing to build 5G and add markets across the U.S., and we’re excited to bring 5G, and all of its…

NORTH POLE – Santa doesn’t have 5G yet, but he’s getting closer. “We just got Santa on the path of 5G,” said Todd Krautkremer, chief marketing officer for Cradlepoint Inc., a Boise-based networking hardware and software company. Routers for NORAD For…

T-Mobile has announced 5G service for thousands of cities and towns across the U.S., including more than 80 in Idaho. But it's different from the high-speed 5G+ Verizon announced earlier this year for parts of Boise and Meridian, said Christopher…

Verizon has released maps of its 5G coverage in Idaho showing exactly where in Boise and Meridian people can expect to get the high-speed wireless service. The company made the service available in the Treasure Valley on Sept. 26 after installing the…

Portions of the Treasure Valley – including unspecified parts of Meridian as well as a number of locations in Boise – now have access to 5G cellphone service through Verizon. The announcement was expected. Verizon has been installing the small but…

Todd Krautkremer can look out of his Boise office at Cradlepoint and see a 5G antenna, but he can’t pick up 5G service here yet, and neither can the rest of us. “I’m sitting here looking out my window at Boise Plaza,” on Idaho and 11th, reported…

Cradlepoint, one of Boise’s most venerable startups, has created an arm focused on the company’s public sector and public safety products, geared toward first responders. While the public sector has been one of Cradlepoint’s four main markets for…

A second judge has ruled that having to use biometrics, such as a fingerprint or your face, to unlock your cellphone when you’ve been accused of a crime is a violation of the person’s Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. That’s after a…

In case you’re curious, stored data about the intensity with which you like to use a vibrator has now been ruled to be communications “content.” It’s true. It was ruled on by a judge and everything. Most of the vibrator data ruling has to deal with…

Shocked, shocked as they were to learn that user cellphone location data was being sold, major cellphone service providers have pledged to stop the practice, for reals this time. At least, by March. For sure. The major carriers had already pledged…

While nobody has announced 5G mobile networks in Idaho yet, Ada County has taken a step that could bring them closer, by making it easier for mobile network providers to install the transmitters they need. The ordinance, which was passed by the Ada…

Should law enforcement be able to get a search warrant for your phone just based on the fact that you happened to have been near the vicinity of a crime? So far, the courts are saying yes. Cellphone location data has been a big deal lately, with…

We’ve talked before about data storage on cars – why it’s important to delete it and how it’s going to be stored. But there is a more fundamental question to be discussed: Who owns it? The Auto Care Association, an industry trade group, recently…

“The American Civil Liberties Union deserves congratulations” is not a sentence one is accustomed to read from the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, but it just goes to show how pervasive the Carpenter case was that the Supreme Court decided …

« Everyone Who Doesn’t Have 16 Cell Phones, Poke Out Your Right Eye government privacy Security Yet another court has ruled that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents have to have some sort of probable cause to search people’s electronics. The Fourth …

BlackBerry Cell phones government privacy Security A couple of weeks ago, there was some discussion about the material seized from the office of Michael Cohen, the attorney for the Trump organization, and the e-discovery implications of that. In …

The next generation of cellphone service is intended to provide speeds 20 times faster than what we have now. It also is expected to reduce the latency that makes videoconferencing so difficult, and to have almost unlimited capacity. It’s called 5G. …

FItbit map Metadata We’ve written before about fitness trackers such as Fitbits and the potential interesting challenges they create for electronic discovery. But here’s a new one. Strava, the company that produces a variety of these devices, …

government privacy Security smartphone The Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments in the case of Carpenter vs. the United States, which could help determine what sort of data the government could get about you without a warrant. As you may recall, …