Tait Chosen for P25 System for Police, Fire

Codan Limited has signed a definitive agreement to pay $45 million cash to acquire 911 solutions provider Zetron that will enable the merger of Codan’s Critical Communications unit and Zetron into a new company that will operate under the Zetron brand, according to multiple sources. Australia-based Codan and Zetron—a subsidiary of Japan-based JVCKENWOOD—announced the deal […]

Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensees operating on T-Band (470-512 MHz) spectrum last week submitted hundreds of license applications that could expand their  coverage footprint for the first time in nine years, and the long-awaited process was executed without significant conflicts, according to sources familiar with the situation. “Everything went well; there was no issue whatsoever,” Farokh Latif, […]

Firefighters’ RF devices and remote speaker microphones will have to pass unprecedented durability testing and include a data-logging capability—similar to a “black box” on an airplane—to achieve certification under the new standard published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). NFPA is well known for developing fire-safety standards for citizens and firefighters, but the NFPA […]

Almost 17 years after the FCC called for the reconfiguration of 800 MHz spectrum—known as 800 MHz rebanding—the massive program of retuning more than 2,100 radio systems should be done in June, the 800 MHz Transition Administrator (TA) recently stated in its notice of program completion filed recently with the FCC. “The TA has determined […]