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Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) to shut down

After three years of existence, the non-profit Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) will cease operations within 45 days as officials say they believe that the organization achieved its primary goal to promote public safety’s use of open-standard technologies. “PSTA achieved its mission,” PSTA board member Jeff Johnson said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. […]

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Sepura: We’re not impacted by injunction to freeze Hytera assets in the UK

United Kingdom-based LMR manufacturer Sepura says it is continuing normal business operations and is not subject to having its assets frozen, even though it is a subsidiary of Hytera Communications, which has been ordered by the High Court to freeze up to $345.7 million in assets located in England and Wales. Sepura was listed as […]

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TCCA: Tony Gray discusses organization’s TETRA history, work toward LTE future

As TCCA celebrates its 25th anniversary, TCCA CEO Tony Gray talks about the organization’s support of the development of TETRA—the LMR standard for public-safety agencies in Europe and many other parts of the world—as well its crucial role in helping get the 3GPP standards body to create public-safety standards within LTE technology. As public-safety […]

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Ericsson announces MCPTT support, including eMBMS LTE broadcast, IOPS functionality

Ericsson has announced a new critical-communications portfolio that includes two key capabilities needed for 3GPP-standard mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT) to become a viable alternative to LMR: LTE broadcast and the ability for a cell site to support local communications without connectivity to the main network core. Jason Johur, Ericsson’s strategy and market-development director for […]

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ETSI reports 92% interoperability success rate from MCPTT, MCDATA, MCVIDEO plugtests

Vendors from around the globe demonstrated significant interoperability during last week’s ETSI plugtests for mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT), mission-critical-data (MCDATA) and mission-critical-video (MCVIDEO), posting a 92% success rate overall, according to ETSI officials.

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Participants express optimism about mission-critical LTE in wake of ETSI plugtests in Texas

More than 120 engineers from 30 companies conducted a series of tests as part of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Plugtests event in an effort to ensure that LTE mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) products will provide voice interoperability to first responders in the future.

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Industry Spotlight on Tony Gray, chief executive at the TCCA

TCCA CEO Tony Gray discusses the future roles of broadband and LMR technologies within the critical-communications industry during this question-and-answer preview of the Critical Communications MENA show, which will be conducted on Sept. 25-26 in Dubai.

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Panelists note public-safety benefits in LTE standard, cite work that needs to be done

Key first-responder capabilities—noatably, group communications and off-network functionality—are not yet in the LTE standard, and economic pressures could hinder their development, panelists said during a public-safety session at the recent LTE North America conference in Dallas.

Commentary

Global ecosystem for public-safety LTE begins to look realistic

The prospect of a global public-safety standard could have a massive impact on pricing for equipment and applications, if managed correctly.

Article

With TETRA, appearances can be deceiving

Months after the FCC approved the technology’s use in the U.S., not much is happening — but that may not be indicative of interest.

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Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) to shut down

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Sepura: We’re not impacted by injunction to freeze Hytera assets in the UK

Audio

TCCA: Tony Gray discusses organization’s TETRA history, work toward LTE future

News

Ericsson announces MCPTT support, including eMBMS LTE broadcast, IOPS functionality

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ETSI reports 92% interoperability success rate from MCPTT, MCDATA, MCVIDEO plugtests

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Participants express optimism about mission-critical LTE in wake of ETSI plugtests in Texas

Commentary

Industry Spotlight on Tony Gray, chief executive at the TCCA

News

Panelists note public-safety benefits in LTE standard, cite work that needs to be done

Commentary

Global ecosystem for public-safety LTE begins to look realistic

Article

With TETRA, appearances can be deceiving

Commentary

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