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Manatee County (Fla.) selects RapidDeploy to provide cloud-based 911 tactical mapping, data analytics

Manatee County, Fla., soon plans to install RapidDeploy’s cloud-based NG911 Bundle, which is expected to provide tactical-mapping and data-analytics capabilities to the county’s 911 emergency communications center. Funded with almost $100,000 from a state grant program designed to let public-safety answering points (PSAPs) procure next-generation 911 (NG911), the RapidDeploy Radius Plus platform being implemented in […]

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Smart-building energy-management systems yield cost savings

One of the biggest challenges for commercial building owners and managers is how to reduce energy consumption and save money. Indeed, almost 40% of energy consumed in the U.S. powers commercial and residential buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But enabling smart technologies and real-time energy management systems can reduce costs by an average […]

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Motorola Solutions awarded $764 million in trade-secret theft case against Hytera

A federal jury in Illinois today ruled unanimously that Hytera Communications stole land-mobile-radio (LMR) trade secrets and infringed upon copyrights owned by Motorola Solutions, awarding $764.6 million in damages to the Chicago-based, LMR-industry giant. Originally filed in March 2017, the trade-secret theft lawsuit was part of Motorola Solutions’ multi-pronged legal attack against Hytera, which included […]

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Mission Critical Partners: Kevin Murray discusses acquisitions, vision for 911 future

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) CEO Kevin Murray talks about the consulting firm’s three acquisitions during the past 18 months, as well as how the additional expertise is designed to better position MCP to help advise 911 centers making the transition from voice-only operations to workflows that also integrate mulitimedia, including data and video.

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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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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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Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020: Who’s backing out of Barcelona?

The biggest single annual gathering of telecom companies and decision-makers is suffering the impact of the coronavirus, as more and more companies announce they are no longer attending Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona, which is currently still due to open its doors on Monday, February 24. By the middle of Monday, European time, a […]

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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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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

Managing cities like Las Vegas takes discipline and vision. The city proper has a population of more than 600,000 and the larger Las Vegas metropolitan area has a population of more than 2 million, there is much to manage in the city environs, from public transportation to parking and traffic as well as streetlights and […]

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Manatee County (Fla.) selects RapidDeploy to provide cloud-based 911 tactical mapping, data analytics

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Smart-building energy-management systems yield cost savings

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Motorola Solutions awarded $764 million in trade-secret theft case against Hytera

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Mission Critical Partners: Kevin Murray discusses acquisitions, vision for 911 future

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

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Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks

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Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020: Who’s backing out of Barcelona?

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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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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

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

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