Motorola Solutions introduces enhanced data platform for P25 networks

House Energy & Commerce Committee members unanimously advanced a bill that would reauthorize the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions for three years and provide $14.8 billion to transition the nation’s 911 center from legacy technologies to an IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) platform. Committee members yesterday voted 50-0 to send the bill—H.R. 3565, the “Spectrum […]

President Joe Biden yesterday nominated telecom attorney Anna Gomez to be the fifth FCC commissioner and renominated current commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Brendan Carr to serve additional five-year terms on the FCC. “I thank President Biden for this honor,” Gomez (pictured above) tweeted yesterday. “I am humbled and grateful. If confirmed, I look forward to […]

A ruling by the competition watchdog in the United Kingdom (UK) about the Airwave TETRA system is projected to cost Motorola Solutions more than $1 billion, but an SEC filing from the company indicates that the proposed price controls likely will not become effective until at least next year when the appeals process is complete. […]

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 […]