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Newscan: 911 Grant Program now accepting applications to upgrade nation’s call centers

Newscan: 911 Grant Program now accepting applications to upgrade nation’s call centers

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  • 1st February 2019

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Minnesota sheriff’s office using drones to save lives

The operational benefits of deploying public-safety tech innovations

College campuses consider pulling emergency blue-light phones

AT&T does flip flop on fixed 5G, now sees it ‘unequivocally’ as a landline-broadband replacement

AT&T plans to test 5G with AirGig, seeks AirGig manufacturers

Samsung produces 1-terabyte embedded memory for smartphones

Clock ticking on Broward County’s plans for new emergency-communications system this year

C Spire forms consortium to bridge digital gap in rural areas

If convicted, Huawei faces bigger problems than fines

Senate Democrats seek answers on shutdown impact on cybersecurity

Hackers are passing around a megaleak of 2.2 billion records

Apple apologizes for FaceTime eavesdropping bug, says update coming next week

Google shuts down iPhone data-gathering app: ‘This was a mistake, and we apologize’

Apple pulls the plug on Facebook’s internal IoS apps

Facebook slammed over covert app that pays teenagers for data

3 myths about privacy in tech

U.S. appeals court, House panel to take up net neutrality

Sprint touts network investments as it reports $141 million loss

Google takes its first steps toward killing the URL

U.S. regains an elected leadership position at the ITU after a 25-year hiatus

 

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911 Grant Program now accepting applications to upgrade nation’s call centers

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FCC announces 24 GHz auction to begin on March 14

FirstNet blog: Devastation from California Camp Fire is a solemn reminder of public safety’s sacrifice

FirstNet blog: Mission-critical features move forward during latest 3GPP standards meetings

FirstNet video: Push to talk on FirstNet

FirstNet blog: FirstNet earns its wings at Indiana airshow

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