Nextel inks 10-year deal with Tennessee Valley Authority 

Nextel Communications announced it has been awarded a 10-year contract from the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility, to provide...

Iridium says it is on solid ground 

Iridium Satellite LLC recently reported that its revenues grew by 17% in the first half of 2004, and that its subscriber base now totals more than 100,000....

English transit agency deploys citywide mesh network 

The City of Portsmouth, England, has deployed a citywide mesh network developed by Maitland, Fla.-based MeshNetworks and installed by U.K.-based Now Wireless,...

AT&T Wireless to provide priority access to first responders 

AT&T Wireless announced it has signed a contract to provide Wireless Priority Service (WPS). During emergencies when wireless network capacity is strained,...

Transcrypt provides encryption solution to Summer Olympics 

Kenwood two-way radios to be used by security personnel during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, next month will be upgraded with encryption modules...

Motorola: OFDM field tests yield 300 MB/s data rates 

Motorola recently said field experiments conducted on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technologies (OFDM) established that such technologies...

M/A-COM wins $4.5 million contract from Washington state police 

M/A-COM announced it has been awarded a $4.5 million contract by the Washington State Patrol to provide in-band, dual-receive M7100IP mobile radios and...

Paris public transit agency chooses Nokia TETRA system 

The Parisian public transit agency RATP has awarded a contract to Nokia to deploy a TETRA network that will provide coverage to the agency’s rail and...

Michigan resort town installs citywide Wi-Fi network 

The City of Grand Haven, Mich., has deployed a citywide Wi-Fi network developed by Grand Haven-based Ottawa Wireless. The network, operated and managed...

Power failure knocks out Chicago’s 911 call center 

The City of Chicago lost its 911 emergency call center for about one hour recently due to a power failure, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Calls were...

General Dynamics lands $295 million military contract 

General Dynamics recently announced it has been awarded a $295 million contract to develop small, lightweight software-defined radios that eventually...

Motorola lands $329 million contract for Virginia statewide system 

Motorola announced it won a $329 million contract from the Commonwealth of Virginia to design and deploy a statewide VHF digital trunked communications...

West Virginia conservation agency installs first wide-area digital system 

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources recently completed the installation of a $2 million Motorola ASTRO digital communications system. The...

Report: RFID spending to approach $5 billion over next three years 

The Yankee Group estimates that manufacturers will spend about $2 billion on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and another $1 billion to $3 billion...

RFID system developer to create customer ID cards, key fobs 

MyVigo Corp. recently announced it would develop a point of service system, including customer identification cards and key fobs, which would be marketed...