M/A-COM announces P25 deployment

Public-safety microwave systems—considered by many to be the “backbone” of mission-critical LMR networks—already are being harmed by the introduction of unlicensed uses in the 6 GHz band, and the problems could worsen in the future, according to a member of APCO’s governmental-affairs team. Mark Reddish, senior counsel for the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO), […]

Ensuring that public safety can communicate while responding to emergencies inside buildings is a clear need, but identifying the proper solutions and making them affordable to building owners is a significant challenge, according to panelists exploring the topic during a recent Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) event. Mike Baltrotsky, assistant chief and technology manager for Montgomery […]

Longtime public-safety and wireless-communications consultant and writer Andrew “Andy” Seybold, 77, died Tuesday morning at his home in Phoenix after a lengthy battle with a series of health problems. A prolific writer, Seybold wrote about wireless communications in a variety of venues—in columns for newsletters, in white papers as a consultant, and as an author […]

National Telecommunicators Week is being celebrated nationwide this week—and rightly so. Telecommunicators represent the hub of the emergency-response wheel, and this has been the case for a very long time. When 911 service first emerged in the United States, which occurred in 1968, it was common for a secretary in a sheriff’s office to answer […]