Audio Motorola Solutions: John Touvannas highlights new APX NEXT features, future plans 10th May 2020 John Touvannas, Motorola Solutions’ director of product management, describes the functionality included in the new SmartMessaging and SmartMapping applications that are available through on the APX NEXT, the company’s P25 radio that includes LTE connectivity.
News COVID-19 pandemic having mixed impacts on in-building projects for public-safety communications 8th May 2020 Most aspects of the economy have slowed or halted completely in the wake of measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but the pandemic is resulting in certain in-building communications projects being accelerated, according to an official at in-building solutions provider ADRF. Dennis Burns, ADRF’s director of public safety, said the company is very busy […]
News Airgain integrated antenna-HPUE modem promises to double effective Band 14 range 7th May 2020 Airgain today announced AirgainConnect AC-HPUE, an antenna-modem that is designed to double the LTE coverage range of a mobile router by integrating a 700 MHz Band 14 high-power-user-equipment (HPUE) modem into the antenna, enabling 10 times the transmit power of a typical roof-mounted antenna. AirgainConnect AC-HPUE integrates a FirstNet Ready Band 14 HPUE modem from […]
Partner content Loon nabs partnership with AT&T, but not necessarily revenues 7th May 2020 Loon – the Internet-from-balloons provider that sprung from Google’s R&D labs – announced a new partnership with AT&T. The companies’ agreement essentially paves the way for Loon to deploy its balloons more quickly for AT&T or other operators around the world. “Under the partnership, we have successfully integrated the Loon system with AT&T’s network. This […]
News Newscan: The miracle of the Internet not breaking during COVID-19 pandemic 7th May 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations The miracle of the Internet not breaking during COVID-19 pandemic Why didn’t COVID-19 break the Internet? The coronavirus pandemic is breaking the Internet Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security Cell towers in Canada attacked over COVID-19 conspiracy theories So far, 77 cell-phone towers have […]
Audio CBRS: Bob Plaschke outlines promising options to leverage 3.5 GHz spectrum 6th May 2020 Bob Plaschke, a longtime advocate of wireless broadband technologies and former CEO of Sonim Technologies, describes potential use cases and capabilities for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum at 3.5 GHz to support enterprises’ private LTE systems delivering connectivity for a host of applications, from general Internet access to Internet of Things (IoT) […]
Partner content Facing up the driverless-car barriers 5th May 2020 Over the next decade connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are expected to generate millions of dollars for the global economy. At least, that’s what’s currently predicted by many people in the industry. Yet the expectation that they will be on our roads next year in 2021 is considered to be too optimistic with human drivers […]
News COVID-19 economic impact could accelerate LMR-to-LTE shift, L3Harris CEO says 5th May 2020 Economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic are projected to result in land-mobile-radio (LMR) growth this year dropping 10% this year and “could drive an accelerated shift from LMR to LTE,” L3Harris Technologies Chairman and CEO Bill Brown said today. L3Harris officials “felt very good” about the company’s LMT growth, which was “close to 20%” last […]
News FirstNet Band 14 coverage serves about half of U.S. rural population, FirstNet Authority reports 4th May 2020 About half the rural population within the U.S. is within the FirstNet coverage footprint for operations using 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority, according to the FirstNet Authority’s annual report to Congress that was released last week. Although the information in the report is about seven months old—reflecting the FirstNet Authority’s […]
Audio ESChat: Josh Lober talks hybrid LMR-LTE, deals with DoJ and TELUS 1st May 2020 ESChat CEO Josh Lober highlights the benefits of hybrid systems that utilize both LMR and broadband push-to-talk solutions to deliver voice communications, as well multiple forms of interoperability. Lober also outlines ESChat’s recently announced contract with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the launching of push-to-talk service offered through TELUS Communications, one of […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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