Newscan: Former rescue-squad volunteer to lose amateur license after unauthorized transmissions on city radio system

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS—Findings from outreach workshops with first-responder entities during the next several months will be used to help develop the FirstNet Authority’s roadmap that will outline the organization’s plans to invest about $15 billion into the FirstNet system during the next 23 years, according to a FirstNet Authority official. Last month, the FirstNet Authority […]

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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS—Push-to-talk services over the FirstNet system being built by AT&T already are being leveraged and more use cases are developing as the offering rapidly evolves toward a mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT)-compliant solution during the next few years, according to an AT&T FirstNet official. AT&T’s existing enhanced push-to-talk (EPTT) product—a carrier-integrated product provided by Kodiak, which […]

Public-safety and enterprise system administrators can gain insight about their personnel’s use of wireless networks—including mobile broadband systems that are not under their direct control—with the “Aware” release of solutions from NetMotion Software, according to a company official. Steve Fallin, NetMotion’s senior product manager, said that the Aware release introduces new features to the company’s […]