Intrado: Steve Reed talks about integrating Beware tool into Motorola Solutions’ IDP platform

About a decade ago, I received a call that no one wants to get—a beloved family member had committed suicide. He was schizophrenic, had tried a couple of times before—cry-for-help attempts, apparently—and he wasn’t good about taking his meds, so the call wasn’t unexpected. Nevertheless, it was stunning and sobering, with all of the “what […]

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Winning the bid to build the nationwide FirstNet system on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum has been very beneficial to AT&T overall strategy, allowing the carrier to grow its wireless business, improve network quality and lay the foundation for the transition to 5G, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said this week. “FirstNet has gone off the […]

Private LTE networks like the 900 MHz being proposed by Anterix can deliver vital communications reliably to support utilities’ future electric-grid distribution needs, based on the results of a phase-one testing project conducted with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Anterix—formerly known as pdvWireless—last week announced completion of the initial tests, […]