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Verizon exec outlines critical-communications goals for this year, highlights future 5G vision for first responders

LAS VEGAS—Verizon plans to announce mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) and LTE-embedded, body-worn camera offerings this year, and the carrier is developing a 5G network that promises to rid first responders of the capacity concerns they experience today when using bandwidth-intensive applications, according to a Verizon official. Justin Blair, executive director of wireless business products for Verizon Wireless, […]

Mark43 partners with Carbyne to bring cloud-based call-handling, dispatching package to 911 sector

Cloud-based computer-aided-dispatch (CAD) vendor Mark43 today announced a partnership with Carbyne—a cloud-based, call-handling platform provider—to integrate their solutions into what the companies describe as the “first entirely cloud-based incident-response system in the U.S.” Officials for both companies cited the complementary nature of the partnership, noting that both Mark43 and Carbyne share a vision that public-safety […]

Verizon shares vision for transition to 5G, expectations to meet high-reliability, low-latency thresholds

Fueled by massive amounts of millimeter-wave spectrum, true mobile 5G services will deliver ultra-fast download speeds and two performance characteristics that promise to be crucial in the critical-communications arena: 99.999% reliability and end-to-end network latency of less than 5 milliseconds, according to Verizon officials. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg initially announced these performance thresholds last month […]

AT&T officials outline current IoT capabilities over FirstNet, future considerations for LTE-M

FirstNet currently does not support the use of low-power, wide-area (LPWA) protocols like LTE-M, but the nationwide public-safety broadband network can be leveraged for low-bandwidth Internet of Things (IoT) use cases with quality of service, priority and preemption (QPP) on LTE, according to AT&T officials. David Allen, director of IoT advanced product development for AT&T—the […]
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