Motorola, Verizon collaborate on mobile broadband modem

Samsung and AT&T yesterday announced that its Galaxy XCover Pro rugged smartphone and Tab Active Pro tablet have been certified as FirstNet Ready, expanding the device portfolio for first responders and field workers utilizing the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). Samsung’s Galaxy XCover Pro has similar ruggedness characteristics to the Galaxy XCover Field Pro, which […]

Verizon hosted a strategy session for investors this week, detailing its 5G network upgrade efforts and – perhaps more importantly – how it plans to make money from the construction of that network. In a response to questions from analysts on the topic, Verizon CFO Matthew Ellis said that the operator expects to recoup its […]

  Dean Richmond, senior director of marketing at Cel-Fi by Nextivity, discusses his company’s new in-building solutions, which include an offering that is designed to support FirstNet communications utilizing Band 14 700 MHz spectrum. Nextivity speakers will be featured during IWCE’s In-Building Forum, a virtual event being presented Nov. 18-19, in partnership with the Safer Buildings […]

ESChat this week announced that the company has migrated public-safety customers of its push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) application to the Amazon AWS GovCloud platform in a move that is designed to improve security and enable greater interoperability with customers’ land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems. “It’s been a long time coming, and it’s a big step for us,” ESChat CEO […]