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February 09, 2021 | Comments
The National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) and the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) are partnering on an in-building public-safety communications certification program.
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February 08, 2021 | Comments
As the critical communications industry gradually transitions, we are expecting to see it complement or replace highly reliable and secure TETRA and other radio networks with LTE technologies.
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February 05, 2021 | Comments
Verizon is providing critical communications support for Super Bowl 55 in Tampa Bay, Florida, in a year where the Super Bowl will look quite different due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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February 05, 2021 | Comments
The telecommunications regulators of Mexico and Colombia launched consultations considering whether to allow unlicensed use in the 6 GHz band.
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February 03, 2021 | Comments
The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) continued its after-action review of the bombing of an AT&T building in Nashville, Tennessee, meeting last week with public-safety officials and FirstNet subscribers in states that were affected by the service outage.
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February 02, 2021 | Comments
Mission-critical communications are called that for a good reason, which is that they cannot fail regardless of the circumstances. But, fail they do, for all sorts of reasons. A good continuity of operations plan is key to ensuring the failure doesn’t impact the ability to complete your mission.
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February 02, 2021 | Comments
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) is seeking comment on a request by an Illinois water company to share public-safety frequencies.
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February 02, 2021 | Comments
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) jointly announced that the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute will spearhead a $268,000 project to develop interoperability standards for CAD systems used by the nation’s public-safety agencies.
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February 02, 2021 | Comments
In its financial results for 2020, AT&T said it now has more than 1.9 million FirstNet connections and more than 15,000 agencies are now using the FirstNet service.
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February 01, 2021 | Comments
A coalition of public-safety and critical infrastructure organizations sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to pause any certifications for commercial devices to be used on 6 GHz spectrum.
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