"Broadband"
Broadband Committee Goes Public
December 31, 2013The APCO Broadband Committee was created in 2010 to help the association address the implications of emerging high-speed wired and wireless networks used by APCO members in comm centers and in the field alongside existing land-mobile radio (LMR) networks used by first responders.
Read full articleCambium Networks Debuts PTP 650, New Sub-6 GHz Point-to-Point Wireless Broadband Solution
November 4, 2013Cambium Networks today launched PTP 650, a new sub-6 GHz addition to its field-proven PTP portfolio.
Read full articleSandy May Delay Broadband
December 6, 2012Superstorm Sandy caused “significant damage” to a new fiber-optic Internet network being built in West Virginia with $126.3 million in federal stimulus funds, according to a letter released by the state Office of Technology on Wednesday.
Read full articleFCC’s Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau Announces that the Disaster Information Reporting System is Prepared to Receive Information on Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol and Broadband Internet Services
July 2, 2012As of June 28, 2012 the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission) Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) will accept disaster outage information on interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and broadband Internet services.
Read full articleSen. Hutchison Urges FCC to Bring Spectrum to Market Quickly
May 17, 2012U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison urged the FCC to move quickly on bringing spectrum to the wireless market in order to increase competition in the mobile broadband industry.
Read full articleTexas’ Harris County Takes Crime Fighting to Next Level with Expanded Public Safety LTE Communications System
April 25, 2012Motorola Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a $4 million contract to expand the Harris County, Texas Public Safety LTE wide area broadband network.
Read full articleFCC Set to Unveil Rules for Rural Broadband Fund
November 3, 2011Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion. The Federal Communications Commission is also preparing to disclose new rules for the byzantine system that governs how phone companies pay each other for phone calls. It’s a system that, virtually everyone in the industry agrees, is outdated and leads to perverse schemes by carriers to stimulate certain kinds of phone traffic.
Read full articleCarlson and Neul Announce Global Partnership to Produce White Space Radios for Broadband
October 18, 2011Carlson and Neul today announce plans to jointly develop and market a new white space radio networking system aimed at bringing affordable broadband to millions around the world. This marks the beginning of a significant, global partnership between two established leaders in white space technologies.
Read full articleCity of Charlotte Selects Alcatel-Lucent to Deploy Public Safety LTE Mobile Broadband Network
October 11, 2011On September 26, 2011, the City of Charlotte Council approved a contract with Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to deploy a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Public Safety Network in the dedicated Public Safety 700 MHz frequency spectrum.
Read full articleAeroflex endows $1.4 million laboratory at Lancaster University
September 20, 2011Lancaster, United Kingdom— September 13, 2011— Aeroflex Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX), and Lancaster University announced today the inauguration of the Aeroflex Wireless Broadband Laboratory in the University’s School of Computing and Communications at InfoLab21, Lancaster’s world-class center of excellence for research in information and communication technologies.
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