Wireless Networks

Public Safety Rethinks the Future

Recent moves by some European public-safety agencies to study commercial wireless technology as an alternative to the TETRA (terrestrial trunked radio)

Interop draws the smart money

SmartLink Radio Networks landed a $12 million round of venture funding last month, a significant win that will let the company more than double the size

Predicting coverage area is critical

Early in the evolution of land mobile radio, it was discovered that the higher the base-station antenna, the greater the radio coverage area. This sent

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E911 Institute honors individuals The E911 Institute recently honored New York State Assemblyman David Koon, Kristy Wikliff of Southlake, Texas, and Jim

Jordanian company to build iDEN network

Amman, Jordan-based New Generation Telecommunications will build a $49 million nationwide radio dispatch and cellular telecommunications network utilizing

Cincinnati airport upgrades wireless notification system

Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport has deployed a wireless notification system jointly developed by Emergin and Nextel Communications

Nextel posts $1.5 billion profit for 2003

Nextel CommunicationsNextel Communications announced it recorded net income of $1.54 billion for fiscal 2003—$1.41 per share—an 11% gain over the previous

Oregon city deploys mesh data network

The city of Medford, Ore., announced it has deployed a high-speed mesh data network developed by Maitland, Fla.-based Mesh Networks, Inc. The 24-square-mile

MRT’s Kinley authors book on RF devices

Noble Publishing has published “The Radioman’s Manual of RF Devices,” authored by Harold Kinley, who writes Mobile Radio Technology’s popular “Technically

Southeast Asia nation deploys first TETRA system

The Southeast Asia nation of Brunei Darussalam, located on the north coast of Borneo on the South China Sea, has deployed a TETRA (terrestrial trunked

Public Safety Rethinks the Future

Interop draws the smart money

Predicting coverage area is critical

NEWS BRIEFS

Jordanian company to build iDEN network

Cincinnati airport upgrades wireless notification system

Nextel posts $1.5 billion profit for 2003

Oregon city deploys mesh data network

MRT’s Kinley authors book on RF devices

Southeast Asia nation deploys first TETRA system

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