Commentary Remember to feed the elephants 17th May 2012 By David Kahn — Earlier this year I attended NIST’s 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Demonstration Stakeholders Meeting, where very smart people presented their visions for the national LTE/4G network. However there seemed to be a few elephants in the room that largely were ignored.
Commentary Creating global market critical to public-safety broadband success 15th May 2012 APCO/TCCA’s announcement does not guarantee that all continents eventually will migrate their next-generation public-safety radio systems to LTE, but it is a step in the right direction.
News APCO, TETRA association partner to support public-safety LTE research 15th May 2012 Support for mission-critical LTE communications research became global when the Global Alliance of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials and TETRA Critical Communications Association announced joint support of first-responder LTE research being conducted in the U.S.
Commentary Public safety anxiously awaits 700 MHz broadband direction 10th May 2012 Some of those most instrumental in stating the case for public safety’s need for additional spectrum and funding have been left in a rather uncomfortable limbo while anxiously awaiting word from the nation’s capital about the next steps they should take.
Commentary Panel: LTE, LMR will have to co-exist for a significant period 5th May 2012 Like most in the public-safety industry, none of the panelists expressed confidence about how long LMR and LTE systems will need to co-exist in the public-safety sector, but the general consensus was that it will be at least a decade.
Article Power struggle 1st May 2012 Public safety is allowed to partner with utilities on its nationwide broadband network, but such partners only are allowed to access the network on a secondary basis. Exactly what “secondary” means is the critical question.
Commentary The long arm of broadband 1st May 2012 There are some who believe that the public-safety broadband network is much more a law-enforcement play, and that the fire and emergency medical services won’t benefit nearly as much. I am certain that those people are wrong.
News Harris County selects Motorola for LTE expansion (with related video) 24th April 2012 Harris County has accepted Motorola Solutions’ deployment of the initial seven-site network, which leverages the statewide 700 MHz spectrum waiver held by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
News NTIA cautions against early public-safety LTE deployments 10th April 2012 Officials for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently asked jurisdictions with plans to deploy public-safety LTE systems during the next year to stop their work to ensure that money is not wasted on equipment that will not integrate into the nationwide broadband network.
NTIA official provides timelines for nationwide broadband network 20th March 2012 NTIA has until Aug. 20 to establish the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), the 15-member board that will make policy decisions regarding the public-safety broadband network.
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