DoD invests in P25 radios

New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) police are communicating on a 700 MHz P25 Phase 2 system designed by L3Harris that has demonstrated automatic roaming with a Motorola Solutions P25 network in another state, as well as ongoing interoperability with LTE-based FirstNet users. John Vallarelli, the MTA Police Department captain who led the multiyear […]

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Public safety currently depends slightly more on smartphones than land-mobile-radio (LMR) technology during a typical day, and this gap is expected to widen significantly in favor of smartphones and other broadband devices during the next five years, according to a national survey of first responders commissioned by Verizon Frontline. More than 3,000 people who “self-selected” […]

UK government market investigators are scheduled to publish in April a provisional decision about Motorola Solutions’ role in the Airwave public-safety TETRA network and issue a final report on the matter in June, according to an administrative timetable posted this week by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Based on this schedule, it appears that […]