Partner content Verizon escalates interoperability battle with AT&T, FirstNet, others 5th February 2021 Verizon’s Andres Irlando is officially putting AT&T, FirstNet and others in the public safety industry on notice: The interoperability fight is not over. Not by a long shot. “We don’t have true interoperability,” said Irlando, who is in charge of Verizon’s “public sector” business, which includes sales of services to federal, state, public safety and […]
News Florida prepares for new statewide P25 bid while seeking extension with L3Harris 2nd February 2021 State of Florida officials expect to publish the first procurement document for a new Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS-2) in the near future as the state continues negotiations with L3Harris to extend the existing SLERS contract that is scheduled to expire this summer. Matt Matney, public safety bureau chief for the Florida Department of […]
News RapidSOS functionality helps 911 centers overcome outages after Nashville explosion 2nd February 2021 When the Dec. 25 explosion in Nashville caused outages that prevented 911 calls from being completed, many 911 centers turned to technology from cloud-based RapidSOS to both identify and locate emergency callers, so response efforts could be initiated, according to officials from RapidSOS and a Tennessee 911 center. Cassie Lowery, assistant director at Rutherford County […]
News Newscan: FirstNet MegaRange means Mega Band 14 coverage 29th January 2021 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet MegaRange means Mega Band 14 coverage! FCC Acting Chair says agency reviewing reports of East Coast Internet outages For next steps on telehealth, look to the states AT&T’s public-safety network knows which floor first responders are on Why Russia may have stepped up its […]
News FirstNet adoption tops 15,000 agencies, 1.9 million connections, AT&T says 29th January 2021 FirstNet provided more than 1.9 million LTE connections to more than 15,000 public-safety agencies as of the end of 2020, nationwide FirstNet contractor AT&T reported this week as part of its earnings release for the final quarter of 2020. Noted in AT&T’s investor-briefing document released on Wednesday, the latest FirstNet adoption figures represent the third […]
News AT&T unveils FirstNet innovations, including HPUE, vertical location, deployable offerings 27th January 2021 FirstNet subscribers now can access new technological capabilities that are designed to improve terrestrial LTE coverage, locate first responders, let agencies address coverage gaps quicker during incidents and enable interoperability between FirstNet PTT and LMR users, FirstNet contractor AT&T announced. Key FirstNet innovations unveiled yesterday as being available for public-safety use are: MegaRange, the FirstNet […]
Audio Rescue 42: Tim O’Connell outlines benefits of Compact Rapid Deployable (CRD) units with FirstNet 26th January 2021 Rescue 42 CEO Tim O’Connell describes how agency-owned Compact Rapid Deployable (CRD) units can provide an easy-to-deploy FirstNet cell tower that can be transported to an incident site with first responders, typically sooner than deployable can arrive from FirstNet, built by AT&T. AT&T cited the CRD program as part of its innovation announcement today. […]
News Motorola Solutions launches MOTOTRBO Ion ‘smart radio’ with DMR, broadband capabilities 26th January 2021 Motorola Solutions today announced the launch of the MOTOTRBO Ion, a “smart radio” that combines DMR narrowband voice capability with the broadband capabilities across carrier LTE, private LTE/CBRS and Wi-Fi into a rugged package that is designed to work in enterprise environments. Carlos Camps, Motorola Solutions’ director of engineering, noted the challenges of supporting narrowband […]
News Verizon calls on industry to provide ‘true interoperability’ to first-responder community 25th January 2021 Telecommunications giant Verizon announced that it is working to create a broad industry coalition that would address the longstanding public-safety communications issue of “true interoperability” between first-responder entities, according to a Verizon executive. Andres Irlando—a Verizon senior vice president and president of the carrier’s Public Sector and Verizon Connect unit—said the company “has been working […]
News Axon, Cradlepoint team to support Burbank police broadband applications 23rd January 2021 Police personnel in Burbank, Calif., are using Axon video solutions and Cradlepoint broadband connectivity to provide reliable, secure access to footage depicting the situations that officers encounter, according to officials for both vendors. Vehicles used by the City of Burbank’s police department are equipped with Axon’s Fleet 2 in-car video system, Axon Body 3 body […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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