News UK Home Office agrees to four-year Airwave extension worth $2.09 billion to Motorola Solutions 31st January 2022 Motorola Solutions will continue to provide mission-critical voice communications to public-safety services in the United Kingdom (UK) via the Airwave TETRA network through 2026, after the LMR vendor signed a four-year extension worth more than $2 billion with the UK Home Office. Terms of the extension were not surprising, as officials for both the Home […]
News Anterix, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories release fire-mitigation test results for utilities 29th January 2022 Anterix and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) announced that test results indicate that deploying low-latency private LTE networking in concert with existing utility technologies can eliminate the risk of a major cause of wildfires—live power lines as they fall to the ground. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has developed a falling conductor protection (FCP) application that is designed […]
News FirstNet exceeds 3 million connections and 19,500 agencies, AT&T reports 26th January 2022 FirstNet added more than 1 million connections last year, providing more than 3 million connections to more than 19,500 public-safety agencies at the end of 2021, according to figures reported this morning by AT&T, the contractor responsible for building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). AT&T officials barely mentioned FirstNet during today’s quarterly […]
News Fleet Complete launches LTE-M asset trackers for FirstNet 22nd January 2022 Fleet Complete has announced that the company’s wired and solar-powered LTE-M asset trackers have been approved for use on FirstNet, allowing the small senor devices to access the prioritized connectivity via the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T. Brent Dutka, Fleet Complete’s vice president of business development, said the AT1 Wired and […]
Partner content How the launch of ‘real’ 5G turned into an unmitigated PR disaster 20th January 2022 Midband 5G has long been the most alluring flavor of the technology. Unlike lowband 5G, it supports impressive speeds. And unlike highband, millimeter wave 5G, it covers wide geographic areas. Midband 5G has often been described as the “real” 5G due to the “Goldilocks” nature of spectrum that’s not too low and not too high but juuuuuust right. For […]
News NextNav selected by ‘top wireless carrier’ to deliver Z-axis location for 911 calls 19th January 2022 NextNav announced that it has signed an agreement with a ‘top wireless carrier’ to deliver vertical-location—or Z-axis—information about an 911 caller to a public-safety answering point (PSAP) when an emergency call is made. Dan Hight, NextNav’s vice president of business development and partnerships, said that the NextNav 911 Z-axis solution—using the same vertical-location technology leveraged […]
Audio ESChat: Josh Lober discusses integration with Siyata SD-7 IoT radio 19th January 2022 ESChat President/CEO Josh Lober talks about his company’s partnership with Siyata Mobile, including today’s announcement that ESChat push-to-talk (PTT) service is available on the Siyata SD-7, which is a rugged IoT device certified for use on multiple carrier networks: Verizon, AT&T and FirstNet, with T-Mobile certification expected in coming months. By leveraging an Internet […]
Partner content AT&T, Dish win big in Andromeda auction, Verizon gets nothing 16th January 2022 AT&T and Dish Network walked away with the bulk of spectrum licenses up for grabs in the FCC’s latest spectrum auction. AT&T agreed to spend roughly $9 billion on midband spectrum licenses for 5G, while Dish agreed to spend $7.3 billion. Those results are mostly in line with analyst expectations. T-Mobile agreed to spend almost $3 […]
News Public safety, critical-infrastructure entities make 4.9 GHz proposals to the FCC 14th January 2022 Public-safety use of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band should be protected via a priority-and-preemption rules that allows sharing with critical-infrastructure entities, but exactly how this scheme is implemented remains a topic of considerable debate, according to dozens of comments to the FCC exploring the matter. Comments about the best use of 4.9 GHz (4940 MHz […]
Partner content Katibeh, in charge of AT&T’s 5G and fiber buildout, leaves company 13th January 2022 Mo Katibeh has left AT&T. That’s noteworthy considering he was in charge of expanding AT&T’s 5G and fiber networks. In a release, Katibeh said he is joining RingCentral as its new chief operating officer, reporting to the company’s CEO Vlad Shmunis. “I’m thrilled to join the RingCentral team as they continue to shape the future […]
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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