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COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented challenges for ECCs, 911 centers

We’re living in brave and unsettling times created by a global pandemic that has changed nearly all of our societal and operational norms in just a few weeks. No one and no business has gone untouched. What was unimaginable 30 days ago is all there is to read about today. What’s also getting a lot […]

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Rakuten to deploy drone inspectors at cell sites

Rakuten Mobile, Japan’s disruptive mobile network operator (MNO), said it will use drones – developed within Rakuten Group, an e-commerce and online retailing company – to inspect basestations nationwide. Cell site inspections can be a dangerous task for engineers, apparently, especially when climbing up antenna towers to get a good look at the basestation. Rakuten […]

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COVID-19 could have lasting impacts on 911 practices, speakers say

Amid the ever-evolving response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 911 centers are seeing their roles expanded and altered in ways that would not have been contemplated in the past—and many of these changes may become the new normal, according to leaders of 911 centers speaking during a webinar last week. Tyrell Morris, executive director for the […]

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Preventing and responding to ransomware

Ransomware attacks on public institutions are on the rise. In fact, in 2019, many state and local governments, as well as hospitals, were the targets of cybercrime. The result can be a lack of productivity, financial issues and other operational deficiencies and crises for these organizations. The fact that these dangerous cyberattacks, and their consequences […]

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Researchers say smartphone-location tracking can fight COVID-19

Researchers at MIT have developed a smartphone location-tracking app that they say could help stop the spread of COVID-19. The Private Kit app allows coronavirus patients to rely on their phones instead of their memories when doctors ask them where they have been and who they might have exposed. People who download the Private Kit app can […]

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Newscan: First responders face new world with COVID-19

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations ‘We are learning things minute by minute’: First responders face new world with COVID-19 Puerto Rico shutters police stations, 911 center, fire station amid COVID-19 curfew Alabama, other states share COVID-19 addresses in effort to protect first responders Grim new rules for NYC paramedics: Don’t bring cardiac arrests […]

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2G, not 5G, best bet to accelerate driverless tech

Making our existing cars more ‘clever’ could be a better way of getting autonomous cars safely on our streets rather than relying on 5G connectivity. That’s the view of Dr Ramsey Faragher founder and CEO of FocalPoint and a Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, who argues a 2G connection is ample when the car’s sensor […]

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COVID-19 crisis challenging public-safety communications on many levels, speakers say

In addition to a multitude of well-chronicled policy, staffing and supply challenges facing the health-care sector amid the COVID-19 crisis, the outbreak is forcing agencies to consider atypical measures to ensure the health of public-safety communications systems and the people who support them. “Business as usual … kind of ceases to exist,” Greg Rubin, communications […]

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Behind the numbers: How COVID-19 could change the US telecom industry

As much of the US settles into a “new normal” that includes spending a lot of time on the Internet to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus, the nation’s telecom operators are recording new traffic records almost every day. Importantly, all that traffic may have significant implications – including financial implications – for a wide range […]

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Coronavirus is a wake-up call. Are you listening?

The ancient philosopher Heraclitus once opined that the only constant in life is change. But there is another one that impacts every city and county organization and the officials who manage them—sooner or later a natural or man-made event is going to wreak havoc with your organization’s operations. In some cases those operations will come […]

Tracking, Monitoring & Control

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COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented challenges for ECCs, 911 centers

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Rakuten to deploy drone inspectors at cell sites

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COVID-19 could have lasting impacts on 911 practices, speakers say

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Preventing and responding to ransomware

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Researchers say smartphone-location tracking can fight COVID-19

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Newscan: First responders face new world with COVID-19

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2G, not 5G, best bet to accelerate driverless tech

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COVID-19 crisis challenging public-safety communications on many levels, speakers say

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Behind the numbers: How COVID-19 could change the US telecom industry

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Coronavirus is a wake-up call. Are you listening?

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COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented challenges for ECCs, 911 centers

Coronavirus is a wake-up call. Are you listening?

Verizon, AT&T withdraw from smart-city efforts

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