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Harris Corp.’s BeOn Offers P25 Voice over 3G Cellular & LTE Networks
August 19, 2011MELBOURNE, Fla., Aug. 8, 2011 — Harris Corporation announced that its BeOn enables public safety subscribers on a cellular or public safety LTE network to talk to each other, exchange text messages and pass real-time location information to connected team members and the dispatcher’s computer-assisted dispatch system.
Read full articleMotorola Solutions Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Accelerate Public Safety LTE Adoption
August 19, 2011PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8, 2011 — Motorola Solutions Inc. announced the LTE Cloud Core Service as an offering available within its suite of Public Safety Managed Services. The LTE Cloud Core Service builds on Motorola’s experience in network management for public safety agencies and provides customers deploying Public Safety LTE technology a choice of implementation models.
Read full articlePSST Authorizes Chairman to Apply for PLMN-ID for Network
August 18, 2011The Public Safety Spectrum Trust’s board of directors today endorsed a position statement adopted by the Association of Public-Safety Communications…
Read full articleAnritsu Company Expands LTE Measurement Capabilities in Spectrum Master™ and BTS Master™ Handheld Analyzers
August 2, 2011Morgan Hill, CA – For Immediate Release – Anritsu Company announces it has enhanced the LTE measurement capabilities in its MS272xC Spectrum Master™ and MT822xB BTS Master™ series of handheld analyzers. With the new analysis tools added to the existing measurement capabilities, field engineers and technicians have handheld instruments that can conduct nearly all the measurements necessary to successfully deploy, commission, and maintain LTE networks.
Read full articleFCC Announces Spectrum-Sharing Agreements with Canada & Mexico
August 2, 2011WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FCC has reached arrangements with Industry Canada and Mexico’s Secretariat of Communications and Transportation for sharing commercial wireless broadband spectrum in the 700 MHz band along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican border areas.
Read full articleSprint Nextel and LightSquared Announce Spectrum Hosting and Network Services Agreement
July 28, 2011RESTON, Va., and OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – LightSquared and Sprint Nextel announced today they have entered into a 15-year agreement that includes spectrum hosting and network services, 4G wholesale, and 3G roaming. This spectrum hosting arrangement leverages Sprint’s investment in its innovative, multi-year Network Vision plan.
Read full articleMore Capacity: The Role of Picocells in LTE
July 18, 2011The proliferation of wireless devices capable of sending and receiving large amounts of data is straining commercial wireless networks. Smart phones, data cards and tablets with such applications as video sharing and conferencing, social networking and gaming consume more wireless network resources than phone calls and texts. Similarly, the increased use of novel public safety applications, such as video streaming, street cameras, automatic license plate recognition and the coming proliferation of sensors and M2M (machine-to-machine) devices, will increasingly strain public safety’s wireless networks.
Read full articleLightSquared Forms Rural Initiative to Ensure LightSquared and GPS Co-Existence
July 12, 2011RESTON, Va. – July 7, 2011 – LightSquared™, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, announced today the creation of the Empower Rural America Initiative led by an advisory board that includes former Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and former Representatives George Nethercutt of Washington and Charlie Stenholm of Texas.
Read full articleRaytheon Awarded Nation’s First Competitive Public Safety LTE Broadband Communications Network Contract
July 7, 2011The $8.7 million contract will provide Adams County, Colo., and the adjacent Denver community, with a 15-site LTE communications system that delivers the public safety user access to next generation broadband capabilities, such as streaming video, remote data access and information sharing.
Read full articleLightSquared Solution to GPS Issue Will Clear Way for Nationwide 4G Network
June 22, 2011RESTON, Va. – June 20, 2011 – LightSquared™, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network, today outlined a comprehensive solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. This solution will permit LightSquared to proceed with its business plan, protect the public’s stake in GPS and lay the foundation for the future co-existence of a variety of wireless broadband services and GPS.
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