International

Airbus Connects Tetrapol, LTE for French Motorbike Event

January 30, 2019 | Comments

Airbus will provide its secure communications solution to ensure 4G coverage of Europe’s motorbike and quad event, the 44th Enduropale du Touquet Pas-de-Calais in France. Local firefighters taking part in the event can better protect the expected 500,000 visitors during the three-day event, which starts 1 February.

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Harris Announces Fiscal Second-Quarter Financial Results

January 29, 2019 | Comments

Harris reported fiscal 2019 second quarter revenue of $1.7 billion, up 9 percent compared with the prior year. Net income increased 72 percent to $225 million, and adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased 18 percent to $327 million with margin expansion of 150 basis points.

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PSCE Releases Paper on Semantic Interoperability

January 28, 2019 | Comments

Public Safety Communications Europe (PSCE) released a new white paper on semantic interoperability, building on the results of the Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance seCurity of Citizens (EPISECC) project.

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Zinwave Appoints New CEO, COO

January 28, 2019 | Comments

Distributed antenna system (DAS) provider Zinwave announced two new executive appointments — Brad Kitterman as CEO and Dennis Burke as chief operating officer (COO). Kitterman and Burke join Zinwave from divisions of Zinwave’s parent company McWane.

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France Selects Prescom’s MCPTT-to-PMR Gateway

January 25, 2019 | Comments

The French Ministry of Interior (MoI) selected Prescom to ensure interoperability between mission-critical next-generation network and legacy narrowband networks.

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Second Finnish Emergency Call Center Upgraded to New Technology

January 25, 2019 | Comments

New emergency call technology called ERICA was successfully deployed at the Kuopio, Finland, emergency call center 22 January. Finland’s new nationwide emergency call center technology is being deployed one call center at a time.

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Practitioner Team Provides Input into European Public-Safety Procurement

January 25, 2019 | Comments

Practitioners from 16 European countries gathered 23 January to contribute to BroadWay, a EU pre-commercial procurement (PCP) project, which aims to pave the way for a pan-European mobile broadband network for public safety.

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Hytera Wins TETRA Contract with Brazilian Transit Company

January 24, 2019 | Comments

Hytera signed a contract with Trensurb, the urban trains company of Porto Alegre, to provide a TETRA communications system to the metro of the capital city of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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ETSI Sets Specs for Smart City Data Sharing

January 24, 2019 | Comments

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Industry Specification Group for cross-cutting Context Information Management (ISG CIM) released its main specification GS CIM 009 for NGSI-LD application programming interface (API), targeting smart city applications and government services.

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Finland Amends Laws for Critical Communications Broadband Transition

January 24, 2019 | Comments

Finland formally established that broadband access will gradually be taken into use through communications services by public authorities. The old network, Finland's Authority Radio Network, will operate alongside the new system until the broadband service is ready and has been taken into use in full.

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