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LightSquared Next-Generation Satellite and Space-Based Network Successfully Completes Post Launch Testing
February 14, 2011RESTON, Va., February 14, 2011 – LightSquared, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network, today announced the…
Read full articleAustralian Ambulance Communications Taken Down by Computer Virus
February 14, 2011AUSTRALIA — The New South Wales government said today that it was launching an investigation into how a computer virus…
Read full articleAeroflex PXI Test System Boosts Production Test Speeds by 5X for Mobile Access Devices
February 11, 2011STEVENAGE, UK—February 11, 2011—Aeroflex Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX), announced today that by deploying its…
Read full articleFort Worth EOC Deploys WebEOC for 2011 Super Bowl & Ice Event
February 11, 2011AUGUSTA, Ga., Feb. 11, 2011 — The city of Fort Worth, Texas, the 17th largest city in the United States,…
Read full articlePublic Safety Alliance Receives Warm, Bipartisan Reception
February 11, 2011February 11, 2011, Alexandria, Va. – The PSA leadership came to the nation’s capital once again this week to ask…
Read full articleTerry Halls Speaks at Cassidian (EADS) User Conference in Seville, Spain
February 11, 2011On Wednesday, Jan. 26, APCO Second Vice President Terry Hall, director of Emergency Communications for York County, Va., was a…
Read full articleLoudon 9-1-1 Trains to Find Kids
February 11, 2011Loudon, Tenn. — For three hours, a Loudon couple could not locate their 10-year-old son. He had disappeared from their home. So they frantically dialed 9-1-1.
Read full articleRPI Fire Dispatch Criticized
February 11, 2011Troy, N.Y. — Firefighters said an RPI dispatcher gave them the wrong address to fight an on-campus arson Tuesday night, delaying their response by 30 minutes.
Read full articleThoughts from Around the Room
February 11, 2011For APCO International, its inaugural Technology Roundtable, held Feb. 9 in Ontario, Calif., and sponsored by TeleCommunication Systems Inc., succeeded in creating an open and dynamically evolving dialogue among 13 public safety communications leaders on the topics they wanted to discuss.
Read full articleViews from the West
February 11, 2011Approximately 600 public safety communications professionals from across the Western Region of the U.S. — representing every state — gathered in Ontario, Calif., this week for the 2011 APCO International Western States Regional Conference.
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