M/A-COM lawsuit: NY system worked as contractedBy Donny Jackson New York state terminated a $2 billion contract with Tyco Electronics M/A-COM for a statewide wireless network because the state was seeking financial relief during... Speaker: National Emergency Communications Plan making 'huge progress'By Glenn Bischoff Only eight states had statewide interoperability plans in place when the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP)—an initiative that established nationwide goals for emergency communications—was launched in July 2008.... Obama nominates Genachowski to head FCCBy Donny Jackson President Barack Obama this week officially announced plans to nominate Julius Genachowski as the new permanent chairman of the FCC.... PSST, Cyren Call part waysBy Donny Jackson Cyren Call Communications and the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) today jointly announced that the entities would end their controversial advisory relationship less than 18 months after it began... The ABCs of motivating 911-center employeesBy Glenn Bischoff It’s not easy working in a 911 communications center. Dispatchers and call-takers routinely deal with domestic violence, lost and missing children, people who believe they want to commit suicide and people who are incoherent or unintelligible... Sprint Nextel: iPCS situation will not harm iDEN customersBy Donny Jackson Sprint Nextel’s legal dispute with iPCS Wireless should not be problematic for the carrier’s iDEN customers, a spokesman with the nationwide carrier said... Public safety could play crucial role in broadband grant awardsBy Lynnette Luna The public-safety community may not have received the federal money it specifically asked for to build a nationwide broadband network, but it could play a valuable role in helping communities get a piece of the $7.2 billion in stimulus funds... NATE revises tower climber fall protection training standardBy Glenn Bischoff The National Association of Tower Erectors, or NATE, recently announced that it is revising its tower climber fall-protection training standards to bring them more in line with the American National Standards Institute’s Z359 standards... Sprint Nextel's rebanding price tag continues to increaseBy Donny Jackson Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel spent $1.8 billion on spectrum reconfiguration related to 800 MHz rebanding through 2008 and projects it will spend $3.2 billion to $3.6 billion by the time the massive effort is complete, the company said in an annual regulatory filing released last week.... Public safety, CTIA ask FCC for relief in 700 MHz bandBy Donny Jackson Three public-safety organizations and CTIA, the trade association for commercial wireless carriers, this week asked the FCC to address the use of low-power devices in the 700 MHz band—specifically, wireless microphones—that could interfere with first-responder communications in the band.... 911 centers see 19% turn-over rate, APCO saysBy Mary Rose Roberts The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) recently released an analysis that reports an average, national telecommunicator turn-over rate of 19%. The turn-over rate has increased 3% since the initial study in 2004... Interoperability, change orders slow rebanding effortsBy Donny Jackson Officials for two 800 MHz public-safety licensees in Florida expressed frustration with slowdowns in their respective rebanding efforts caused by interoperability agreements and a lengthy change-order process during a panel at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Winter Summit in Orlando last week... BearingPoint files bankruptcyBy Donny Jackson BearingPoint, the consulting company that is leading the Transition Administrator’s (TA) project management of the 800 MHz rebanding efforts, yesterday announced its U.S. operation has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a financial restructuring deal with its senior secured lenders.... Text messaging promises to alter 911 landscapeBy Donny Jackson ORLANDO—As text messaging continues to grow in popularity as a communications mode, 911 centers will need to be able to accept emergency text messages... Tough economic climate may drive PSAP consolidationBy Mary Rose Roberts In today’s economic climate, government officials are grappling with ways to save money. One way is to consolidate the dispatch and call-taking functions of multiple first-responder agencies under one brick-and-mortar facility.... |
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