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National Broadband Plan Released
March 24, 2010APCO and the public safety community have been anticipating the release of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan for some time now. In March, the FCC finally released the plan.
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March 24, 2010Educational opportunities were plentiful and many new products were on display at IWCE 2010, held March 10-12 in Las Vegas.
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March 12, 2010APCO Member Alan Hull talks about what APCO has meant to him and reminisces about his experiences.
Read full articleCelebrating Women in Public Safety Communications
March 11, 2010In honor of Women’s History Month this March, Marilyn Ward answered a few questions about her distinctive experiences and the challenges she faced as a woman in public safety communications.
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March 1, 2010At the end of April 2010, the Passenger Bill of Rights will go into effect, creating the potential for telecommunicators to receive wireless 9-1-1 calls from airline passengers stranded on the Tarmac.
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March 1, 2010In his March column, APCO International Executive Director George Rice discusses the implications of cloud computing technology for public safety communications.
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March 1, 20109-1-1 Telecommunicators are a special breed. They are trained to be the voice at the end of the phone that remains calm, cool and professional no matter what the call. But what happens when a call comes in that personally affects them? For two telecommunicators, that’s exactly what happened.
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March 1, 2010In 2008, the North Charleston (S.C.) Fire Dept. implemented a mobile digital pre-plan system and a dispatching and mapping program. The technology has made a major difference in how the agency responds to emergencies.
Read full articleTapping into Federal Funds: Your Ultimate Grant Resource
March 1, 2010Public safety communications centers hoping to improve infrastructure, upgrade equipment or add staff need access to funding outside the usual…
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