Upstart announces plans for spectrum marketplace 

By Donny Jackson

After a year in stealth mode, Spectrum Bridge today announced the launch of its company, which plans to build an online, real-time spectrum commodities market to let spectrum holders monetize underutilized airwaves and allow entities to lease licensed spectrum for operations...

Icom America to split LMR business 

By Glenn Bischoff

Icom America will split its land mobile radio business into separate units that will focus on the business and industrial, or B&I, and government sectors, respectively, said Chris Lougee, Icom vice president, during an interview last week at IWCE 2008 in Las Vegas...

IWCE: Rugged encryption key management device 

By Glenn Bischoff

LAS VEGAS--Tait Radio Communications introduced during IWCE 2008 in Las Vegas this week its Key Fill Device that is designed to let a tactical squad or SWAT team quickly and efficiently load an encryption key onto radios in the field...

IWCE: JPS, Clarity partner on radio-cellular interoperability 

By Glenn Bischoff

LAS VEGAS--Raytheon JPS Communications is demonstrating at IWCE 2008 this week, in collaboration with Clarity Communications Systems, a solution that leverages the company’s ACU-2000 IP gateway device to deliver interoperable communications between land mobile radios and cellular handsets...

IWCE: HYT America introduces new radios 

By Donny Jackson and Mary Rose Roberts

LAS VEGAS--HYT America this week is unveiling a number of new analog portable radios and its first repeater at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center...

IWCE: P25 multi-band radio connects agencies across frequencies 

By Mary Rose Roberts

LAS VEGAS--The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate demonstrated a Project 25 (P25) multi-band radio capable of supporting multiple public-safety frequency bands yesterday at the 2008 International Wireless Communications Expo...

IWCE: Datron unveils ruggedized transceiver 

By Mary Rose Roberts

LAS VEGAS--Datron World Communications launched at IWCE 2008 the HH7700 ruggedized VHF handheld transceiver...

IWCE: EFJohnson announces new mobile radios 

By Donny Jackson

LAS VEGAS--Public-safety communications vendor EFJohnson is introducing ES series of Project 25-compliant mobile radios that features better audio and a smooth migration path to P25 for many public-safety users, according to the company...

IWCE: Kenwood launches NEXEDGE suite 

By Mary Rose Roberts

LAS VEGAS--Kenwood USA unveiled the NEXEDGE product line of multimode conventional and trunked mobiles, portables and repeaters. Joe Watts, the company’s product manager, said the suite was developed in part to address the FCC’s narrowbanding requirements...

IWCE: Motorola introduces new two-way radios 

By Donny Jackson

LAS VEGAS--Motorola this week is debuting a low-band mobile radio and an analog portable radio that operates in the UHF and VHF bands at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) at the Las Vegas Convention Center...

Twisted Pair announces general availability of WAVE 3.0 

By Donny Jackson

Seattle-based unified communications technology provider Twisted Pair this week announced the general availability of WAVE 3.0, the latest version of its unified group communications platform that is designed to work in mission-critical environments for the military, public safety and high-priority enterprises...

First-responder survey generates a few surprises 

By Glenn Bischoff

A recent survey of 200 public safety communications officials and responders conducted by Motorola—in conjunction with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO)—indicated they were much more concerned about their ability to respond to natural disasters than to terrorist attacks or crime. ...

Harris unveils multiband portable radio for first responders 

By Glenn Bischoff

Harris Corp. yesterday introduced a multiband portable radio for the first-responder sector that operates in both VHF (low- and high-band) and UHF (low- and high-band) modes. The company is targeting the federal level first, but said it expects to eventually introduce models for state and local agencies...

Sprint Nextel, Motorola announce LMR interoperability solution 

By Donny Jackson

Sprint Nextel and Motorola yesterday announced the availability of a Motobridge gateway that will allow Direct Connect users on Sprint Nextel’s iDEN network to have push-to-talk communications with users on land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems...

Speaker to public safety: Don’t wait to make funding push 

By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--National economic concerns should not discourage public-safety agencies from pursuing the funding necessary to make their plans for interoperable communications a reality, a speaker said yesterday during the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Winter Summit...