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Public safety needs help sifting through the data

By Tom Sorley — I challenge my fellow radicals to start looking at developing an avatar-like technology that is capable of processing massive amounts of information, learning the preferences of its assigned user, and presenting the appropriate information at the right time.

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Remember to feed the elephants

By David Kahn — Earlier this year I attended NIST’s 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Demonstration Stakeholders Meeting, where very smart people presented their visions for the national LTE/4G network. However there seemed to be a few elephants in the room that largely were ignored.

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Adding low-cost ADP encryption could be a pricy decision

By Scott Tschetter — A movement is afoot to add a proprietary encryption protocol called advanced digital privacy, or ADP, to Project 25 systems across the country. However, in so doing, users are at risk of losing federal grant funds.

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For FirstNet, an unpleasant, but essential step toward productivity

By Donald Denning — Shortly the members of the FirstNET board of directors will be selected and they will begin to form their team, which will begin with the always positive and exciting orientation phase. This undoubtedly will lead to the dissatisfaction phase, where individuals will struggle with power, control and conflicting issues.

Commentary

What D Block legislation means for business, industrial licensees

Readers should know that the EWA will be an active participant in any and all proceedings that may have consequences for the business/industrial licensees that make up at least 16 ounces of the T-Band flesh Congress decided to extract.

Commentary

What public safety needs to understand about the T-Band give-back

By Al Gillespie — No one wants to see public safety lose any spectrum. But in the end, this was a negotiation, one that was quite delicate, and public safety needed to show its good faith by agreeing to Congress’s request to give back the T-Band.

Commentary

Finally, the right tools for the job (with related video)

By Bob Schassler — The real power public-safety LTE broadband communications promise to deliver — better connectivity and virtually unlimited mission-critical data directly on a responder’s handheld device, wherever and whenever it’s needed.

Commentary

Public safety needs help sifting through the data

Commentary

Remember to feed the elephants

Commentary

Adding low-cost ADP encryption could be a pricy decision

Commentary

For FirstNet, an unpleasant, but essential step toward productivity

Commentary

What D Block legislation means for business, industrial licensees

Commentary

What public safety needs to understand about the T-Band give-back

Commentary

Finally, the right tools for the job (with related video)

Commentary

Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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