Intrado forges ties with 911 location vendors 24th February 2006 Leading 911 equipment and services provider Intrado yesterday announced agreements with three leading location-determination vendors—Rosum, S5 Wireless and Skyhook Wireless
TA quarterly report notes mediation progress 24th February 2006 A surprisingly large number of 800 MHz Wave 1 licensees operating in Channels 1-120 (Stage 1) had to turn to mediation to reach a rebanding agreement with Sprint Nextel but only 20 of these cases remain in limbo
M/A-COM wins exclusive negotiating rights for Pa. public-safety deployment 24th February 2006 M/A-COM announced today that the York County (Pa.) Board of Commissioners has authorized the county’s Department of Emergency Services to negotiate exclusively with the vendor for the deployment of a Project 25 simulcast public-safety radio system
SDR Forum taps vendor for reference waveform 24th February 2006 The Software Defined Radio Forum has selected Chelmsford, Mass.-based Mercury Computer Systems to develop a reference waveform for the military’s Software Communications Architecture
Virginia city field tests SquareLoop messaging system 24th February 2006 The city of Manassas, Va., has begun a beta test of SquareLoop’s location-based messaging system
IPC to buy CAD vendor 24th February 2006 IPC Information Systems, which provides mission-critical communications systems to the public-safety, government, utility and transportation sectors, announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Geo911
AdvanceTec intros speakerphone/base station for iDEN handsets 17th February 2006 AdvanceTec Industries recently announced the addition of the AdvanceCommunicator, which lets users insert Motorola iDEN handsets into a desktop speakerphone/base station unit that can be used to make both push-to-talk and cellular calls, the company said
UCAN gets TA approval of planning funding 14th February 2006 Sprint Nextel today announced that the Transition Administrator has approved the company’s planning funding agreement with the Utah Communications Agency Network (UCAN), one of the largest and more complex systems to be part of 800 MHz rebanding
APCO: Plain-language communications are best 13th February 2006 Public-safety personnel should use plain-speech communications instead of the traditional 10-code languages currently used by most first-responder organizations, the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) declared in a position statement released today
M-A/COM wins $8.9 million Las Vegas police contract 13th February 2006 M-A/COM today announced that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has awarded the company an $8.9 million contract to deploy an IP-based 700/800 MHz OpenSky wireless voice and data network
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