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UK Home Office awards Motorola Solutions with 15-month ESN extension worth more than $100 million

Motorola Solutions has been awarded a 15-month contract extension worth 82 million pounds (more than $104 million) to supply Kodiak push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) and other Emergency Services Network (ESN) services for United Kingdom (UK) public-safety agencies through December 2024. In addition to adding time and money to Motorola Solutions’ previous ESN contract, the no-competition contract extension […]
ESN program director says most of UK public-safety LTE system will be finished in fall 2020

ESN program director says most of UK public-safety LTE system will be finished in fall 2020

First responders in the United Kingdom (UK) should be able to use push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) technology on the Emergency Services Network (ESN) nationwide public-safety LTE network next year, according to Bryan Clark, Home Office’s program director leading the ESN project. Clark made the statements during his keynote presentation the Mission Critical Technologies (MCT) even in London […]
Delays associated with overbudget ESN in UK could generate additional Airwave TETRA revenues for Motorola Solutions

Delays associated with overbudget ESN in UK could generate additional Airwave TETRA revenues for Motorola Solutions

Delays and uncertainties surrounding the Emergency Services Network (ESN) mean that some United Kingdom (UK) public-safety personnel likely will need the Airwave TETRA network for at least one extra year beyond the current December 2022 target date to retire the Motorola Solutions-owned system, according to UK officials. UK Home Office officials initially planned to have […]

WiMAX Forum: Mo Shakouri outlines benefits of WiGrid, AeroMACS technologies for private networks

Mo Shakouri, chairman of the board for the WiMAX Forum, explains how WiGRID and AeroMACS technology are designed use licensed spectrum to let critical-infrastructure entities build mission-critical private networks as alternatives to services provided by cellular operators. Shakouri spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during pre-conference activities at the IoT World event in […]

Sonim Technologies’ IPO a tribute to public-safety vision for open-standards ecosystem, CEO says

Ultra-rugged LTE device maker Sonim Technologies today began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, a step that reflects the burgeoning open-standards environment that is developing with the establishment of public-safety and critical-infrastructure broadband initiatives, according to Sonim CEO Bob Plaschke. “This is another milestone in a path that was driven by a lot of brave […]

Southern Linc offers ‘Basic MCPTT’ and ‘High Performance MCPTT,’ shuts down legacy iDEN system for LTE

Southern Linc—the southeast U.S. regional carrier that also provides communications for the Southern Company utility—is leveraging its 800 MHz LTE network to provide two flavors of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service to customers, according to Southern Linc officials. Southern Linc was long known for its iDEN network, but the carrier recently completed a transition to LTE that […]
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