Dowd is right, wrong on 700 MHz stance 4th December 2008 Charles Dowd wants the FCC to abandon its plan for a nationwide wireless broadband network that would be shared by commercial operators and first responders.
Patience on tap 1st December 2008 Since the presidential election, speculation has run rampant around Washington and the rest of the country as to who will be appointed to the Obama cabinet.
To jam or not to jam 19th November 2008 I first met Howard Melamed in 2005 during the APCO show in Denver. He was already deep into his one-man crusade to urge the FCC to allow public safety to use jamming devices to ward off the dangers of cell-phone-triggered explosives.
Feds need to prioritize 700 MHz, narrowband relocation 18th November 2008 As noted in this space previously, there is little consensus about the best way to establish a broadband network for public safety
FEMA unveils 2009 guidance for federal grant programs 13th November 2008 Although it pales in comparison to the $700 billion financial bailout, public-safety organizations soon will receive $3 billion in federally funded checks.
Problems continue to mount in D Block 6th November 2008 Under the best of circumstances, a public-private partnership can be precarious, because balancing the oft-conflicting interests of the public and private sectors is difficult.
Questions still abound regarding white-space use 5th November 2008 While all eyes were on the historic presidential election yesterday, the FCC was busy with some critical votes of its own.
Get out your running shoes 1st November 2008 The FCC originally had on its Oct. 15 agenda a vote on how to make available to public-safety applicants the interleaved (854-860 MHz) spectrum that Sprint Nextel is giving up in rebanding.
Wireless 911 location battle rages on 29th October 2008 It’s been a long road for wireless enhanced 911. When the FCC first mandated that commercial wireless operators must deploy location technology to pinpoint callers dialing 911 from their cell phones in 1996
You get back what you put in—and then some 28th October 2008 Public-safety officials and end-users complain a lot about the antiquated state of their networks, systems and equipment.
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? 3 24th March 2024
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