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Communication Failure after Boston Bombings Reinforces Network Need
May 8, 2013As law enforcement desperately hunted the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the city’s reliance on commercial cellular wireless carriers became an escalating problem.
Read full articleThousands of Improper 9-1-1 Calls Made Each Year In Wyoming City
May 8, 2013The Laramie County Combined Communications Center gets thousands of misuse or hang-up 9-1-1 calls a year. These calls are time-consuming for dispatchers and law enforcement officers.
Read full articleNew Mexico: Dead Spots Strain 9-1-1 System
May 8, 2013Beginning in January, public safety agencies had to comply with a Federal Communications Commission requirement to operate their radio communications on narrower bandwidth as part of an effort to free up airspace to support more users.
Read full articleCommunicating: How Good Are We At It … Really?
May 8, 2013“How good is the Communications Division at communicating, really?” This was the challenge presented to the Broomfield (Colo.) Police Communications Specialists in 2010 by the Department Support Services Bureau deputy chief.
Read full articleDorothy Should Have Had This Geo Targeting App from Ping4 Inc.
May 6, 2013This app, currently being utilized by emergency management agencies from New England to California, utilizes patent‐pending technology which sends warnings of area emergencies to Smartphones
Read full articleDelta County, CO Deploys Vantage Points Dispatch Suite for Public Safety GIS
May 6, 2013Delta County Sheriff’s Office has leveraged the power of Esri’s ArcGIS Server 10.1 integrating Vantage Points Dispatch for the Spillman Computer Aided Dispatch module.
Read full articleRange Networks Names Executive Management Team Company Launches to Advance the Future of Cellular Networks with Commercial Open Source Cellular System
May 6, 2013Calif. Range Networks was formally introduced with the announcement of its executive management team.
Read full articleCassidian Communications Awards Contract to Avtec for P25 Dispatching Console System for City of Montréal
May 6, 2013Avtec announced that it has been granted a contract by Cassidian Communications to supply 63 consoles that will be used to provide emergency dispatching services for the more than three million residents who live in the city of Montréal, Canada and surrounding suburbs.
Read full articleAvtec and Etherstack Work Together To Provide A P25 CSSI Compliant Open Standard Radio Dispatch Communication Infrastructure Supporting 9-1-1 Call Centers in Southeastern Idaho
May 6, 2013Avtec and Etherstack are working together to enable four counties in southeastern Idaho to implement an open, standards-based, completely redundant and shared voice communication system for communicating with the counties’ Public Safety First Responders.
Read full articleLink-age Connect Industry Study Finds Younger, More Mobile Consumers Will Drive Future Demand for Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS)
May 6, 2013The results of a recently released study between Link-age Connect and Aging in Place Technology Watch concludes that technological advancements will drive the PERS market expansion toward a younger, more mobile group who are interested in managing their health while living an active lifestyle.
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