E-911 snafus trigger blame game

FCC commissioners yesterday voted to approve rules requiring wireless carriers to deliver 911 callers’ vertical location that is accurate within three meters in most cases, but critics expressed concern that the location information will not be provided in a manner that is useful to public safety. Under the new order, vertical—or Z-axis—80% of indoor wireless […]

Commercial wireless carriers will be able to bid on 280 MHz of C-band spectrum—from 3.70 GHz to 3.98 GHz—in an auction beginning late next year, if FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s announced plan for the valuable mid-band 5G airwaves becomes reality. Pai made his plan public yesterday with the release of a letter he sent to […]

Motorola Solutions built its reputation delivering LMR voice communications, but the company is using video and software solutions today to “solve a different level of problems” while exploring the 3.5 GHz CBRS band as a platform to provide a new kind of push-to-talk offering with robust data, according to a company executive. “I would say, […]

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