News Motorola clears LTE interoperability hurdle 11th February 2013 Vendor becomes the first to complete the first portion of Phase 3 testing by the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program.
News BTOP resolution on the agenda for FirstNet meeting 11th February 2013 Seven grant recipients whose initiatives have been on hold since early last year are hoping that they finally get the green light to proceed.
News States likely to consider coordinating FirstNet planning-grant efforts 11th February 2013 Geographical proximity will be less important than common issues, goals and opportunities, in deciding whether states will pool their grants and coordinate their planning efforts for the nationwide public-safety LTE network
News New Orleans leverages Harris LTE pilot during Super Bowl 7th February 2013 First responders stream real-time video over a private LTE network using Band 14-enabled tablet computers.
News NTIA announces $121.5 million state planning-funding program for FirstNet 6th February 2013 States will be able to apply for $121.5 million in National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) grants designed to help them conduct planning to be part of the nationwide 700 MHz public-safety broadband network that will be overseen by FirstNet.
News Briefs: FirstNet to conduct meeting next week 5th February 2013 Also, Thales names new CTO, Quality MobileCommunications gets key designation, and utilities embrace NetMotion’s mobile VPN.
News ‘Big data’ is a big tool for the medical community 31st January 2013 Archimedes Model solution is designed to let the medical community leverage “big data” to quickly identify health-related trends that can aid in the prediction of patient outcomes.
News TCS unveils 911 multimedia database capability 31st January 2013 Platform will let telecommunicators access potentially critical information quickly during emergency communications that use text messaging via short message service (SMS).
News Public safety, industry look for more FirstNet communication 29th January 2013 Representatives of first-response agencies and public-safety communications vendors yesterday expressed frustration with the lack of communication they have had with the FirstNet board.
News Briefs: FirstNet begins interviews for top post 29th January 2013 Also, the FCC waives its restriction on 25 kHz-capable equipment in the T-Band, and Cummins invests in fuel-cell vendor ReliOn.
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