Equipment makers think small 1st January 2004 Mobile radio equipment manufacturers often overlook small municipalities, which don’t have the funding or the need, in most cases for large systems costing
4.9 GHz Networks More Secure, But a Long Way Off 1st January 2004 The public-safety community faces a dilemma: Does it make widespread Wi-Fi deployments in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band today despite the security risks
Open spectrum would ease crunch 1st January 2004 Regulation, not physics, is preventing the more efficient use of spectrum, according to Forbes magazine contributing editor George Gilder and other free
Wi-Fi remains a work in progress 1st January 2004 While Microsoft has caught considerable grief over Windows network security holes, it is not alone in what seems to be an industry-wide practice of leaving
Motorola surprises with CEO choice 1st January 2004 Analysts were surprised that Motorola’s board of directors went outside the company to appoint former Sun Microsystems executive Edward Zander as chairman
Inside line-of-sight propagation 1st January 2004 When a line-of-sight path exists between two antennas, the propagation loss is equal to free-space attenuation. Free-space propagation occurs in the far-field
Public-safety communications interoperability conference set 31st December 2003 The Utah Communications Agency Network will host on Jan. 22, 2004 a conference that will address methods to efficiently utilize public-safety spectrum
Independence, Mo., lands federal grant for interoperable radio system 24th December 2003 Independence, Mo., will receive $5.4 million in federal monies to install an interoperable voice and data communications system that will allow the city’s
Astron introduces DirectConnect antennas 23rd December 2003 Astron Wireless Technologies has introduced a line of antennas dubbed “DirectConnect” that allows the customer to determine the length of coaxial cable
EF Johnson parent raises financial guidance 23rd December 2003 EFJ Inc., the parent company of EF Johnson, which produces Project 25 mobile-communications solutions, recently said its fiscal 2003 revenue would fall
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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