After taking over the chief executive reigns of TCCA about a year ago, Tony Gray offers an update on how the past year has gone and his outlook for the coming year in this interview with RadioResource International magazine.

Handset-based emergency location technologies such as Emergency Location Service (ELS) and Advanced Mobile Location (AML) have found success in Europe and other countries but have yet to gain a foothold in the United States.

Lenoir County, North Carolina, engaged Federal Engineering to evaluate its existing radio system and determine the best approach to improving coverage.

Airbus delivered more than 50,000 TETRA pagers to the Hessian, Germany, fire brigades, emergency services and civil protection units.

European Union (EU) members countries' ambassadors approved a set of new rules for the electronic communications sector that cover the 5G rollout and other next-generation technologies, stronger consumer protection and a capped rate for international calls within the EU.

The FCC denied a waiver request by the Miami-Dade County, Florida, to extend its 800 MHz rebanding deadline and ordered the jurisdiction to complete all rebanding activities with Sprint within 90 days.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard for the TETRA Inter-System Interface (ISI) now includes IP connectivity, allowing the process of interconnecting two separate TETRA networks to become faster, easier and more cost effective, TCCA said.

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International is seeking comments on candidate American National Standard (ANS) 2.106.1-201x, which addresses site hardening requirements for public safety grade sites.

The Commerce Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated an audit of the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet’s) deployment of the public-safety core in May.

The Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications Systems (LA-RICS) finalized its agreement with AT&T — first announced last year — whereby AT&T will pay at least $14.5 million for the region’s public-safety broadband network.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) announced $113 million in competitive awards to enhance the detection of radiological materials at the nation's ports of entry. "These next generation handheld devices will bring an even faster and more reliable means to detecting and