Sprint supports California disaster drill 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Sprint last week participated in the Los Angeles-based Golden Guardian effort, a state-sponsored emergency-preparedness exercise....

Reporter's notebook - November 13, 2008 

By Glenn Bischoff

Raytheon unveiled a spread-spectrum radio that provides coverage without infrastructure such as base stations or repeaters...

MSV promises satellite changes 

By Lynnette Luna

The mobile satellite services, or MSS, industry has entered a resurrection period as new regulations and satellite capabilities enable companies to offer ubiquitous voice and high-speed data services to government, enterprises and consumers—without the clunky handsets of the past....

Reporter's Notebook 

By Mary Rose Roberts

The state of New York began its internal systems-integration testing of the first phase of the statewide wireless network (SWN) being built by Tyco Electronics M/A-COM...

Iridium launches new handset 

By Donny Jackson

Satellite-communications provider Iridium Satellite unveiled the 9555, the company’s newest phone that is significantly smaller and more powerful than previous generations of Iridium handsets....

Femtocells could become headache for E911 

By Lynnette Luna

With potentially thousands of mobile customers buying these little boxes to boost their coverage and with a large share of 911 calls coming from mobile devices, the ability to identify mobile call locations when routed through femtocells has the potential to be problematic....

DARPA prepares for test of affordable cognitive radio 

By Donny Jackson

Initial testing of a radio design that is expected to result in affordable cognitive handsets will begin later this year, with a version of the design costing less than $500 to manufacture expected in 2010...

xG Technology inks key base-station deal 

By Donny Jackson

Florida-based broadband solutions provider xG Technology this week announced that private company Treco International has made a $75 million order for 1000 of its new BSN250 base stations...

Wisconsin county officials wrap up VIDA installation 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Ozaukee County, Wis., expanded its 4.9 GHz Voice, Interoperability, Data and Access (VIDA) broadband wireless network from Tyco Electronics M/A-COM Wireless Systems....

Satellite providers announce chipset agreement with Qualcomm 

By Donny Jackson

Qualcomm has agreed to develop an integrated chipset with satellite communications providers Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and ICO Global Communications....

Exalt unveils 5 GHz radios 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Exalt Communications this week released the EX-r 5 GHz radios to meet the needs of public-safety users who demand high throughput and reliable backhaul connectivity...

FreeWave, Arcadian partner on 700 MHz radio for utilities 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Energy-industry professionals now can transmit data and voice in the 700 MHz band using FreeWave Technologies’ 700 MHz wireless radio operating over Arcadian Networks...

xG Technology announces assembly of new mobile handset 

By Donny Jackson

Florida-based startup xG Technology recently announced its completion of the manual assembly of its TX60 handsets by Cambridge Consultants...

MSV adds interoperable talk group in northwest U.S.  

By Donny Jackson

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) this week announced the launch of the NorthWest Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroup (NWSMART) serving public-safety customers in seven states in the northwestern United States....

Alltel agrees to resell Pacific DataVision mobile workforce solution 

By Glenn Bischoff

Alltel Wireless and Pacific DataVision have entered into an agreement that calls for Alltel to sell Pacific DataVision’s SkyMail mobile workforce field-communication service....