Harris: Company announces enhancements to DMR portfolio

New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) police are communicating on a 700 MHz P25 Phase 2 system designed by L3Harris that has demonstrated automatic roaming with a Motorola Solutions P25 network in another state, as well as ongoing interoperability with LTE-based FirstNet users. John Vallarelli, the MTA Police Department captain who led the multiyear […]

Public safety currently depends slightly more on smartphones than land-mobile-radio (LMR) technology during a typical day, and this gap is expected to widen significantly in favor of smartphones and other broadband devices during the next five years, according to a national survey of first responders commissioned by Verizon Frontline. More than 3,000 people who “self-selected” […]

UK government market investigators are scheduled to publish in April a provisional decision about Motorola Solutions’ role in the Airwave public-safety TETRA network and issue a final report on the matter in June, according to an administrative timetable posted this week by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Based on this schedule, it appears that […]

Motorola Solutions yesterday announced the APX NEXT XN, a new Project 25 (P25) radio that includes SmartConnect LTE functionality in a form factor that is designed to meet the “latest and greatest standards” for rugged and resilient fireground communications. John Touvannas, Motorola Solutions’ director of product management, said the APX NEXT XN is the latest […]