News Telewave President and co-founder Raymond L. Collins passes 23rd March 2016 Raymond L. Collins, President and co-founder of Telewave, Inc., passed away in San Jose, Calif., on March 15, 2016, after a brief illness. He was 83.
News LTE communications to be available on Harris multiband P25 portable by the end of the year 22nd March 2016 Harris announces that its XL-200P multiband portable P25 radio is now shipping with Wi-Fi communications capability, and LTE communications on 700 MHz Band 13 and Band 14 will be commercially available on the device by the end of the year.
News Virtual Network Communications: Mohan Tammisetti, Gary Monetti demonstrate credit-card-sized LTE evolved packet core, small eNodeB 22nd March 2016 Virtual Network Communications (VNC) founder and CTO Mohan Tammisetti and Gary Monetti, the company’s vice president of business development, demonstrate how the company’s small eNodeB and evolved packet core (EPC) can be leveraged to enable LTE multimedia communications in locations where an LTE fixed network is unavailable. VNC plans conduct its first manufacturing run of the products in June.
News EF Johnson Technologies’ P25 subscriber line rebranded under Kenwood name 21st March 2016 EF Johnson Technologies announces that the company will rebrand its P25 portofolio of Viking subscriber radios under the Kenwood name, a reflection of EF Johnson’s integration with its parent company, Japan-based manufacturer JVCKENWOOD.
News Final set of answers to FirstNet RFP questions addresses pricing, opt-out network performance 21st March 2016 Public-safety users of FirstNet will receive “most favored customer” pricing and have a uniform customer experience throughout the system, including areas served by opt-out state networks, according to the final set of answers to written questions submitted to FirstNet about its request for proposal.
News EF Johnson’s new perpetual-license model lets repeat customers save on radio software costs 21st March 2016 EF Johnson Technologies announces a new perpetual-license framework that will decouple licenses to the company’s radio software from its hardware units—a strategy that could save long-term public-safety customers significant money, according to EF Johnson CEO John Suzuki.
News Newscan: Patent application could see the Apple Watch calling 911 when it detects a heart attack 17th March 2016 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Patent application could see the Apple Watch calling 911 when it detects a heart attack Pentagon flew drones over U.S. to help first responders, official says Sprint’s parent company may participate in upcoming incentive auction Sticking with Windows 7? The forecast calls for pain Sprint’s carrier-aggregation demo clocks […]
News Motorola Solutions acknowledges it proposed 700 MHz TETRA system for NYC transit before filing protest 17th March 2016 Motorola Solutions acknowledges that it also proposed a TETRA solution in an attempt to win a bus-system radio contract for the New York Transit Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City—a project that the company has formally protested, in part because the company claims that the FCC prohibits TETRA deployment on the 700 MHz public-safety spectrum.
News FirstNet initiates $40 million grant program to relocate 700 MHz narrowband systems by August 2017 16th March 2016 FirstNet announces a $40 million federal grant program that is designed to help 15 public-safety entities move their existing LMR operations from the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum that is licensed to FirstNet. The goal is to clear those airwaves by August 2017 for use by the contractor that will build and operate the proposed nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN).
News 3GPP approves standard for mission-critical PTT (MCPTT) over LTE in Release 13 15th March 2016 Mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) functionality is now part of the LTE standard in Release 13, which was “frozen” by the 3GPP standards body last week in Sweden. As a result, MCPTT-capable equipment should be available for FirstNet when Release 13 is scheduled to be implemented as early as 2018.
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