Motorola adds ‘smart energy system’ to HT radios 

Motorola recently announced it would extend its impres (Intelligent Motorola Portable Radio Energy System) Smart Energy System to its HT Professional series radios...

MDC, XGate certified for Dataradio 

Mentor Engineering today announced its Mobile Data Computer (MDC) and XGate middleware products recently were certified for the Dataradio private wireless data network...

Cingular, Lucent finish first HSDPA test in U.S. 

Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies yesterday announced the first completed data call in the U.S. using High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology in a field trial....

APCO, CSAA pursue third-party data interoperability  

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) and the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) yesterday announced plans to jointly develop a program designed to enable efficient and accurate data exchanges between public-safety answering points (PSAPs) and alarm companies...

Zetron and GeoComm partner on mapping solution 

Zetron and GeoComm recently announced they have collaborated on a mapping solution that will be marketed with Zetron’s Integrator 911 call-taking solution...

Raceway deploys wireless broadband network 

Racing Radios, which specializes in designing and installing wireless communications networks at automobile racetracks, recently deployed a wireless broadband network at the Atlanta Motor Speedway using equipment from Motorola and Tropos Networks...

FCC adopts rules for broadband over power line 

By Donny Jackson and Glenn Bischoff

FCC commissioners yesterday unanimously approved rules for broadband over power line (BPL) technology, which policymakers hope will provide the elusive third broadband access line into most U.S. homes and reduce—or eliminate—the need to regulate the broadband industry....

TechnoCom wireless vehicle location solution deployed in Latin America 

TechnoCom this week announced that a large CDMA operator in Latin America has deployed its VeoLocation Platform. The identity of the operator was not...

Report: WLAN Equipment sales in China to increase 

Research firm In-Stat/MRD recently published a report that indicates that revenues from wireless LAN equipment sales in China will increase by about 33%...

Lucent: Dedicated spectrum for public-safety broadband needed 

Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs President Bill O'Shea, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology this week, called...

T-Mobile trials Flarion mobile broadband data system in Europe 

Flarion Technologies announced this week that T-Mobile International, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, is conducting a trial of Flarion's Flash-OFDM...

Cisco brings Web conferencing to public safety 

Cisco Systems introduced its MeetingPlace solution to the public-safety sector during this week’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials...

M/A-COM adds test messaging to OpenSky 

M/A-COM announced during this week’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference in Montreal that it has added Text Link, a text-messaging...

Motorola intros data solution for mid-sized public-safety agencies 

Motorola said during this week’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference in Montreal that its Windows-based Digital Justice Solution...

Nortel launches Czech wireless broadband network 

Nortel Networks, working with Eurotel, the largest wireless voice and data services provider in the Czech Republic, has launched the country’s first CDMA...