Will WiMAX displace Wi-Fi in public safety? 15th April 2009 The wireless broadband technology known as WiMAX tends to get lost in the hype surrounding Long Term Evolution technology
How comprehensive should the broadband plan be? 9th April 2009 FCC opens proceeding to develop a national broadband plan that will be delivered to Congress next February.
You can’t stop progress 2nd April 2009 A IWCE panel examined the current and future role of IP technologies in public-safety communications. At one juncture, the discussion centered on the friction
Motorola: 2008 ‘best year in history,’ except for mobile devices 26th March 2009 While the problems facing Motorola’s commercial handset unit have been the focus of Wall Street analysts, the plight of the rest of the company has been ignored or simply described as “healthy” in most news accounts.
Sprint Nextel faces uphill battle with iDEN 25th March 2009 What a whirlwind relationship Sprint Nextel has had with its iDEN network over the past year. In early 2008, it said it was absolutely committed to rejuvenating the network but subsequently tried to peddle the iDEN portion of its business.
A message that Washington needs to hear, and heed 19th March 2009 IWCE keynote speaker Steve Zipperstein, Verizon Wireless’ vice president of legal affairs and general counsel, outlined a plan for the network that would give the 10 MHz of airwaves in the 700 MHz band, the so-called D Block, to public safety
Homage to the truly unsung 12th March 2009 A reader suggested that the people who install the communications systems that public-safety professionals rely upon are the truly unsung heroes.
The readers always write 11th March 2009 Readers offered many thoughtful responses to a column I wrote recently about the utility industry’s interest in TETRA and the fact that it can’t have it in the U.S.
700 MHz restart may not be far away 10th March 2009 On Friday, Cyren Call Communications and the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) announced they had mutually agreed to terminate their relationship, bringing an apparent end to one of the wildest roller-coaster rides in the history of U.S. public-safety communications.
Contemplating the seemingly unthinkable 5th March 2009 There is no shortage of watershed events in U.S. history, events that changed the course of history. Two that come immediately
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 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