EFJ to unveil first multiband radio

Attorneys for Hytera Communications and Motorola Solutions acknowledged last week that they have not reached a royalty agreement through negotiation, so a federal judge likely must determine the type of royalty payments China-based Hytera Communications will make to Motorola Solutions when selling certain DMR products. Judge Charles Norgle of the United States District Court for […]

A federal judge ruled that China-based LMR manufacturer Hytera Communications owes Motorola Solutions $543.7 million in the lengthy legal dispute between the companies—a reduction of more than $220 million from the $764.6 million in damages awarded to Motorola Solutions when the court ruled on the matter last year. Judge Charles Norgle of the United States […]

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 […]