Newscan: Public TV stations push FCC to mandate FirstNet datacasting interoperability

A federal-court judge this week released an order denying Hytera’s requests for a retrial or a reduction in the $764.6 million in damages for utilizing Motorola Solutions trade secrets and copyrighted software code to develop much of its DMR product portfolio. “Hytera has not met the high standard for judgment as a matter of law, […]

State of Florida officials continue to talk with L3Harris about Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) contract extension as initial steps are being taken to procure a new SLERS, members of the SLERS Joint Task Force Technical Committee were told yesterday—less than five months before the state Legislature meets. “We are currently still in contact […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Administration officials alarmed by White House push to fast track lucrative 5G contract, sources say BusPatrol, FirstNet partner with Carroll County, Va., public schools to outfit world’s most advanced school-bus fleet U.S. indicts Sandworm, Russia’s most destructive cyberwar unit Verizon signs up Microsoft, Nokia to build private 5G […]

Weeks after it had apparently spurned Nokia, handing a $6.6 billion 5G contract to South Korea’s Samsung, US telco giant Verizon is back in the arms of its Finnish supplier. The two firms have buddied up once again to provide 5G network services to companies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, where Verizon lacks its own […]