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Motorola Solutions private broadband platform supports Anterix 900 MHz use, LTE-LMR integration

Motorola Solutions today announced its Private Broadband for Critical Infrastructure, a platform designed to let utilities, energy companies and other critical-infrastructure entities leverage disparate broadband and narrowband systems, including private LTE networks operating on 900 MHz spectrum licensed to Anterix. Last month, FCC commissioners approved the Anterix proposal to reconfigure narrowband 900 MHz spectrum in […]

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L3Harris extends free BeOn offer through Aug. 30

L3Harris will continue providing its BeOn push-to-talk-over-cellular solution at no cost to healthcare, public-safety and other critical-infrastructure entities through Aug. 30 as part of the company’s offering during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a company official. James Teel, director of product management for the L3Harris public-safety unit, said “around 1,200 users” took advantage of the […]

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PSCR: Dereck Orr previews virtual version of annual stakeholder meeting beginning July 27

Dereck Orr, chief of the Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) division within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), highlights key features of PSCR 2020: The Digital Experience, a virtual version of PSCR’s Annual Broadband Stakeholder Meeting that will not be conducted as an in-person event amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning July 27, […]

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Sonim Technologies launches RDK-3 package with optional interoperability, mesh-networking capabilities

Sonim Technologies recently announced the formal launch of its latest versions of the Rapid Deployment Kit (RDK-3 and RDK-3i), which is designed to provide portable broadband connectivity in a rugged case to entities in locations where communications coverage does not exist or needs to be enhanced. “This is a rapid-deployment kit to get you up […]

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Public-safety speakers laud PTT over LTE ease of use, performance during COVID-19 pandemic

Ease of use, audio quality and cost effectiveness are key reasons why push-to-talk-over-LTE technology has become an accepted part of modern public-safety communications—although not at the exclusion of land-mobile-radio (LMR) voice—according to speakers from the EMS, fire and law-enforcement communities. TJ Kennedy, co-founder of The Public Safety Network consulting firm and former FirstNet Authority president, […]

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FCC’s Pai asks Congress to repeal law mandating auction of public-safety T-Band spectrum

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai last week took the initial step to conduct a mandated auction of T-Band spectrum to commercial users in February, but he simultaneously urged Congress to repeal the 2012 law requiring the bidding process for public-safety airwaves by describing the notion as “a bad idea.” Pai announced last Friday that he circulated […]

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PowerTrunk: CEO Jose Martin discusses North America TETRA deployments, interoperability with P25, MCPTT

PowerTrunk CEO Jose Martin provides updates to his company’s key deployments in North America, primarily with utilities and transit authorities, while also highlighting the fact that PowerTrunk has developed solutions that let users of its TETRA systems have interoperable communications with users leveraging P25 or 3GPP mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) technologies.

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ESChat: Josh Lober highlights features in upcoming release of application

ESChat CEO Josh Lober details upcoming enhancements to the company’s push-to-talk application, including multimedia messaging, location tracking and mapping, and the ability to support both inter-carrier interoperability and inter-system interoperability, which are particularly important to public-safety and military users. The Android version of the new ESChat application is scheduled to be released in August. […]

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FCC approves Anterix proposal to transition 900 MHz LMR spectrum to LTE use

FCC commissioners today unanimously voted to approve rules that will let Anterix transition its 900 MHz narrowband LMR spectrum to a contiguous block of airwaves that can be used to deliver private LTE services, primarily to support communications for utilities and other critical-infrastructure entities. Today’s approval of multiple orders addressing the 900 MHz band follows […]

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Florida officials seek L3Harris extension of ‘several years’ for statewide LMR network

State of Florida representatives are talking with L3Harris officials about a contract extension of “several years” beyond 2021 for the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) as the state prepares to procure a P25-based network to replace the existing system that utilizes aging EDACS technology. Patrick Gillespie, deputy secretary of business operations for the Florida […]

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Motorola Solutions private broadband platform supports Anterix 900 MHz use, LTE-LMR integration

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L3Harris extends free BeOn offer through Aug. 30

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PSCR: Dereck Orr previews virtual version of annual stakeholder meeting beginning July 27

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Sonim Technologies launches RDK-3 package with optional interoperability, mesh-networking capabilities

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Public-safety speakers laud PTT over LTE ease of use, performance during COVID-19 pandemic

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FCC’s Pai asks Congress to repeal law mandating auction of public-safety T-Band spectrum

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PowerTrunk: CEO Jose Martin discusses North America TETRA deployments, interoperability with P25, MCPTT

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ESChat: Josh Lober highlights features in upcoming release of application

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FCC approves Anterix proposal to transition 900 MHz LMR spectrum to LTE use

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Florida officials seek L3Harris extension of ‘several years’ for statewide LMR network

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