Land Mobile Radio

Georgia State Patrol turns to Southern Linc LTE system for mission-critical voice comms

Georgia State Patrol is using a mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service from Southern Linc for its primary voice communications, supplanting the state-owned VHF system during the past 18 months, according to an official with the agency. Captain Brian Screws (pictured above, in center), chief information officer for the Georgia State Patrol, said the statewide public-safety agency has […]

Federal appeals court reduces Hytera payment to Motorola Solutions, permanent-injunction consideration

Hytera Communications will see the copyright damages it owes Motorola Solutions reduced “substantially,” but the China-based LMR manufacturer still will have to pay more than $400 million and face the possibility of a permanent injunction being imposed on it, according to a recent U.S. appeals-court ruling. With the appeals-court decision, these portions of the civil […]

LMR licensing flat at low levels in 2023, but early 2024 business-industrial activity encouraging

Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity remained relatively flat—albeit at historically low levels—in 2023, but early data this year indicates that business-industrial licensing could experience a significant uptick in 2024, according to figures available in the FCC’s online Universal Licensing System (ULS) database. FCC officials granted just 3,020 public-safety LMR license during 2023, with another nine applications […]
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