Tait Chosen for P25 System for Police, Fire

A Florida county recently announced the completion of a successful test of Motorola Solutions’ CirrusCentral Core, the cloud-based secondary core for ASTRO 25 P25 systems that is designed to provide redundant reliability to the land-mobile-radio (LMR) network without the costs associated with a physical secondary core site. In Sumter County, Fla., the absence of a […]

Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity in both the public-safety and business-industrial sectors dropped by more than 10% in 2020 to establish new all-time low marks, based on data available in the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. During 2020, the FCC received 12,368 LMR license application—2,791 for public-safety networks and 9,577 for business-industrial systems—with more […]

President Donald Trump this week signed into law an omnibus funding package that includes language repealing a mandate for the FCC to auction T-Band spectrum, solidifying use of the 470-512 MHz airwaves for public-safety and enterprise LMR networks. Trump signed the $1.4 trillion omnibus bill—as well as $900 billion COVID-19 relief measure—into law on Sunday […]

Public-safety and business-industrial licensees with LMR systems on T-Band spectrum would be able to continue operating those networks, thanks to a scheduled auction of the airwaves being repealed as part of the massive federal funding legislation passed yesterday by Congress. This reported $1.4 trillion funding measure, along with a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, has […]