News Florida governor approves budget, clears path for L3Harris LMR extension, new statewide procurement 10th July 2020 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently vetoed $1 billion from the state budget, but a $2.4 million measure to address the current and future needs of the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) was among the items that survived the cut, according to state sources. Florida’s new budget includes more than $2.4 million for the state […]
Partner content Samsung: Huawei pricing not sustainable for a profit-seeking company 10th July 2020 Samsung has cast aspersions on Huawei’s pricing strategy in the mobile network equipment market when asked by a UK parliamentary committee if years of unfair competition had driven some firms out of business. Woojune Kim, an executive vice president at the South Korean vendor, said no company with shareholders that is trying to make a […]
News RapidDeploy sees its cloud-native 911 solutions gain acceptance during COVID-19 pandemic 8th July 2020 Cloud-native 911 solution developer RapidDeploy has experienced some hiccups during the past few months, but the realities surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated interest and acceptance of its cloud-based CAD, mapping and analytics offerings, according to a company executive. Historically, 911 systems have been built with premise-based technologies that require telecommunicators to be physically present […]
News Huawei alert system raised from amber to red in UK 6th July 2020 What’s riskier than “high-risk”? Huawei already carried that unwelcome designation in the UK, but authorities believed they could mitigate any threat by restricting the Chinese vendor’s role. With the latest US sanctions, even these limits may be insufficient. If Huawei were a virus, the UK’s color-coded alert system would just have switched from amber to […]
Partner content 5G is just one connectivity option 6th July 2020 As public carriers extend their new infrastructure into more areas, the drumbeat for a 5G wireless world has grown louder. But public carrier 5G shouldn’t eclipse the multitude of network connectivity options that businesses can use to bring Internet of Things (IoT) and network edge operations into harmony. In the amplified marketing arena of mobile […]
News House approves $12 billion for NG911 funding in infrastructure package, but bill unlikely to pass Senate 3rd July 2020 U.S. House members this week approved a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill that includes $12 billion in funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments, but the spending proposal is not expected to be considered seriously by the Senate, according to numerous Beltway sources and media reports. On Wednesday, House members approved the massive infrastructure package—knowns as H.R. […]
Partner content Rural carriers ‘stunned’ by U.S. ban on Huawei, ZTE 2nd July 2020 The FCC has banned purchases of Huawei and ZTE equipment and many of the US rural wireless network operators affected by the move are incensed. “As a result, rural carriers who have deployed Huawei or ZTE equipment or services in their networks will now lack the ability to support their critical networks that are serving […]
News L3Harris developing more LMR-LTE solutions while celebrating first anniversary after merger 1st July 2020 L3Harris continues to see market interest in solutions that leverage both LMR and LTE technology in multiple sectors as the company completes its first year of integration since the merger of Harris and L3 Technologies—an effort made more difficult by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic impacts. Nino DiCosmo, president of the L3Harris public-safety […]
Partner content Missouri farm makes hay with edge computing, private LTE 1st July 2020 A family-owned farming operation in rural Missouri is about to get a major upgrade. Thanks to the efforts of Trilogy Networks and its new Rural Cloud Initiative (RCI), the Hurst Greenery farm in Westboro, Missouri, is scheduled to become the nation’s first “farm of the future,” complete with edge computing-powered machine vision technologies running on […]
News Newscan: NYC budget deal shifts a billion from NYPD, but threat of municipal layoffs still looms 30th June 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations NYC budget deal shifts a billion from NYPD, but threat of municipal layoffs still looms Minneapolis City Council unanimously moves forward with plan to dismantle police department State of Michigan experiences 911 outages One bad algorithm? Advocates say facial recognition reveals systemic racism in AI technology New York […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024
