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Newscan: FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel calls for halt of T-Band auction

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel tells public safety she wants to halt T-Band auction Biden could face a deadlocked FCC Congress can rewrite the Telecom Act as it funds Internet infrastructure, panelists say Senate committee advances FCC nominee on party-line vote Barack Obama criticizes progressives over ‘defund the police,’ saying […]

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Carbyne partners with CentralSquare to offer integrated 911 portfolios

Cloud-based 911 solutions provider Carbyne announced a strategic technology partnership with legacy 911 vendor CentralSquare that is designed to let public-safety answering point (PSAP) customers benefit from the integration of the two companies’ offerings as the migrate to next-generation 911 (NG911). Carbyne CEO and founder Amir Elichai said the agreement will provide CentralSquare customers—users of […]

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NENA: Brian Rosen updates NG911 standards progress for Version 3 of i3

Brian Rosen, co-chair of the NENA i3 Architecture Group, provides a status update for Version 3 of the NENA i3 standard for next-generation 911 (NG911), which is entering its second public review and comment phase and could be finalized as early as March 2021. Version 3 of i3 includes several notable additions, including new […]

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RapidDeploy adds 911 mapping, analytics products to partnership with AT&T

RapidDeploy and AT&T announced an expansion of their relationship, allowing AT&T to offer 911 centers access to RapidDeploy RadiusPlus Mapping and Eclipse Analytics solutions, as well as continuing to a similar arrangement for RapidDeploy’s Nimbus cloud-aided dispatch platform, according to officials for the companies. RapidDeploy CEO and co-founder Steve Raucher said the 2018 CAD partnership […]

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Motorola Solutions cites command-center success, LMR challenges during earnings call

Motorola Solutions highlighted growth in its video, services and command-center software businesses, which helped offset notable declines in the company’s land-mobile-radio (LMR) sales, company officials said this week. “I’m very pleased with the progress we’re making in our command-center software business,” Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. “Our command-center […]

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Dish Network: The edge is ‘everywhere’

Dish Network’s Marc Rouanne said that the edge of the company’s coming 5G network will sit wherever the company’s customers want it to sit. “The edge is everywhere,” he said. “Our customers will be able to decide.” He added that Dish’s 5G network will have the ability to move beyond the confines of its own edge and […]

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Attacker dwell time: Ransomware’s most important metric

Ransomware remains one of the most pervasive and insidious security threats to enterprise organizations. In 2020 alone, dozens of brands, from Garmin to Jack Daniels, have been forced to disclose that their networks were breached and their data encrypted by a motley crew of global criminal organizations. While much of the attention around ransomware attacks […]

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Newscan: 911 outages have become a fact of life—are we even fixing this?

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations 911 outages have become a fact of life—are we even fixing this? Nationwide reports of 911 system outages, cause not immediately clear Hackers have infiltrated many of Washington state’s agencies FirstNet asks Congress to cut red tape for tower builds SpaceX’s Internet-from-space Starlink system helping first responders fight […]

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U.S. House votes for repeal of T-Band spectrum auction, measure to halt ‘raiding’ of 911 fees

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would repeal a law requiring the FCC to auction public-safety T-Band spectrum and would seek to prohibit the practice of state and local governments using revenue from 911 fees for purposes other than 911. House representatives on Wednesday voted 410-5 to approve H.R. […]

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It is ‘beyond time’ for Congress to consider reclassifying 911 personnel into first-responder category, Torres says

Federal legislation that would reclassify 911 telecommunicators as members of a protective-service occupation—the job category that includes first responders like firefighters and police officers—continues to gain support but is still awaiting even committee-level consideration, according to the bill’s primary sponsor. Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.), a former 911 dispatcher and sponsor of the 911 SAVES Act, […]

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Newscan: FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel calls for halt of T-Band auction

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Carbyne partners with CentralSquare to offer integrated 911 portfolios

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NENA: Brian Rosen updates NG911 standards progress for Version 3 of i3

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RapidDeploy adds 911 mapping, analytics products to partnership with AT&T

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Motorola Solutions cites command-center success, LMR challenges during earnings call

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Dish Network: The edge is ‘everywhere’

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Attacker dwell time: Ransomware’s most important metric

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Newscan: 911 outages have become a fact of life—are we even fixing this?

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U.S. House votes for repeal of T-Band spectrum auction, measure to halt ‘raiding’ of 911 fees

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It is ‘beyond time’ for Congress to consider reclassifying 911 personnel into first-responder category, Torres says

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