The European Commission announced a call for tenders for a study focused on the role that commercial mobile networks and the economies of scale for commercial equipment, including handheld devices for end users, can currently play and in the future will play in ensuring the provision of "mission-critical" high-speed broadband communications.

The need for interoperable communications systems that can provide real-time situational awareness to first responders has paved the way for the development of advanced technologies in the global first responder command, control, communications and intelligence (C3i) and emergency response market, new research said.

The global market for LMR infrastructure equipment, installation and system integration services amounted to $2.6 billion, according to a new market research report.

Televate released a white paper that explores seven potential scenarios for constructing and operating the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN).

The nationwide public-safety broadband network will be threatened if the FCC limits participation in the incentive auction, according to a new study.

States have made significant progress implementing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) since 2003, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

2012 was the third consecutive year for record shipments by manufacturers of TETRA equipment, according to data released by IMS Research, now part of IHS.

The first ever nationwide test of the emergency alert system (EAS) demonstrated that the national EAS distribution architecture is basically sound, however, several problems impeded the ability of some EAS participants to receive and/or retransmit the emergency action notification (EAN).

The Rialto (Calif.) Police Department released the results of a year-long controlled, randomized study on the impact of on-officer video cameras. The full study, titled "The Rialto Police Departments Body-Worn Video Camera Experiment," began Feb. 13, 2012.

The market for services and key control-room technologies in the public-safety, transportation and utilities markets across North America and the collective Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) region is set for solid growth to $3.4 billion by 2015, according to a recently published report from IMS Research, now part of IHS.