Newscan: Routing issues for 911 calls in Parkland shooting shed new light on emergency communications

The bad news – if you were hoping to attend – is the Winter Olympics in Beijing has banned virtually all spectators. The good news is that means you won’t have to download the official Olympics app, which is said to contain multiple security holes that authorities won’t fix. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab says […]

Between the pandemic, rancorous national politics, civil unrest and staffing shortages, it’s been a difficult few years for those working in public safety—to say the least.  A new report from Rave Mobile Safety, a critical communication platform, quantifies the toll that’s been taken on the industry at large. A little more than 60 percent of respondents […]

Fleet Complete has announced that the company’s wired and solar-powered LTE-M asset trackers have been approved for use on FirstNet, allowing the small senor devices to access the prioritized connectivity via the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T. Brent Dutka, Fleet Complete’s vice president of business development, said the AT1 Wired and […]

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