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Verizon: We have more unused network capacity today than five years ago

Verizon this week sought to counter ongoing worries that its wireless network won’t be able to support any more customers or traffic. Specifically, the company released a chart showing the growth of traffic on its network and its efforts to keep pace with that traffic through the application of more spectrum and new wireless technologies […]

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PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform

Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]

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Sprint/T-Mobile merger: The six big things that should happen next

Although the companies have overcome several substantial obstacles facing their proposed merger, Sprint and T-Mobile are not done yet. There are still a few significant roadblocks the companies must address before their merger can close. Here’s what’s probably going to happen next, in the order it will probably occur: 1. An appeal The first thing […]

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Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities

Lt. Jared Reinhardt of the Texas Military Department provides a tour of the organization’s deployable command vehicles, which support multiband LMR, cellular broadband, satellite backhaul and bridging technologies that are designed to enable interoperability between disparate systems. Reinhardt spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during a field exercise conducted at the RELLIS campus […]

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Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks

Inseego is in the midst of testing how its products can work with products from CommScope, with an eye toward putting the two together in order to sell them to enterprises that want to build their own private wireless LTE networks. “Inseego is a cellular radio equipment (modem/gateway/router) provider, and is seeking to partner with […]

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Motorola Solutions reports record LMR sales in 2019, despite Florida setback

Motorola Solutions posted its second consecutive year of record North American land-mobile-radio (LMR) sales, despite the company’s failure to reach a contract agreement for a statewide Florida network—an initiative in which Motorola Solutions still hopes to participate, according to company officials. During the quarterly earnings call conducted last week, Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown repeatedly […]

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Local officials take on the feds in battle over 5G small cells

The age-old debate in the US between federal oversight versus local control is getting a new shine thanks to the rise of 5G and small cell transmitters. On Monday (February 10), it’s a debate that’s going before a three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Billions of […]

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Vehicle routers serving as tip of the 5G spear for public safety

Super Bowl television advertisements remain a staple of the American zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, Super Bowl LIV brought viewers a tempting glimpse of what 5G promises in the way of improved first-responder operations. Verizon Wireless advertisements showcased the company’s commitment to first responders, and they also put a spotlight on its technology expertise. The gauzy peek […]

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Southern Linc turns to Ericsson for MCPTT with eMBMS, replacing Motorola Solutions WAVE 7000

Southern Linc—the southeast U.S. regional carrier that also provides communications for the Southern Company utility—is deploying Ericsson’s mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) solution with eMBMS broadcast capability that is scheduled to be used by utility workers by the end of the year, according to a Southern Linc official. Southern Linc’s network operates on 3 MHz of 800 MHz […]

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Real-time location systems: A moving target for IoT

During the first e-commerce era, package location tracking arose as a showcase application. In 1994, FedEx.com’s success making such tracking information available online showed what the web could do, and it quickly got wide attention. Today, GPS-oriented tracking systems such as Amazon and Uber have again redefined users’ expectations for efficient fleet systems. Internet of […]

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Verizon: We have more unused network capacity today than five years ago

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PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform

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Sprint/T-Mobile merger: The six big things that should happen next

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Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities

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Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks

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Motorola Solutions reports record LMR sales in 2019, despite Florida setback

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Local officials take on the feds in battle over 5G small cells

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Vehicle routers serving as tip of the 5G spear for public safety

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Southern Linc turns to Ericsson for MCPTT with eMBMS, replacing Motorola Solutions WAVE 7000

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Real-time location systems: A moving target for IoT

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September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

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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Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up