A pro-indoor location accuracy group released results of a survey of managers and dispatchers from public-safety answering points (PSAPs) who handle 9-1-1 calls in all 50 states, finding that most dispatchers have difficulty locating wireless callers through the location information provided by the carriers, particularly when they are calling from indoor locations.

Two Los Angeles television stations and CTIA released a report based on the stations’ channel-sharing pilot. The results have real-world implications for the hybrid business model that would be necessary for a successful channel-sharing agreement to be reached, the report said.

Reserving spectrum for communications by emergency services would improve public safety, according to research by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In addition, it could yield a high socioeconomic benefit that could potentially outweigh the opportunity cost of forgoing the sale of this reserved spectrum, said the report.

The number of entities with identified or suspected security breaches has increased to 40 percent from 28 percent last year, according to a survey conducted by SANS about control system security.

The New Jersey State Police (NJSP) and other public-safety officials in New Jersey and New York coordinated a successful weeklong regional communications effort around Super Bowl XLVIII, which included geographic areas far beyond where the actual football game was played.

A new report indicated that despite ongoing challenges regarding the standardization of mission-critical voice services and other features, private Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments are on the rise. In fact, global spending on public-safety LTE infrastructure will account for $2 billion annually by the end of 2020, according to a report by Signals and Systems (SNS) Telecom.

According to Frost & Sullivan, smart cities are anticipated to create huge business opportunities across different industries with a total market value of $1.565 trillion by 2020.

The National 9-1-1 Program released its most recent update of the report “Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) Standards Identification and Review: A Compilation of Existing and Planned Standards for NG 9-11- Systems.”

A new survey found that system downtime continues to be a significant issue for public-safety answering points (PSAPs), potentially resulting in anywhere from 2 to 57 dropped 9-1-1 calls per hour depending on the size and call volume of the PSAP.

A report analyzes the impact of different spectrum sharing schemes and proposed implementing a spectrum-based fee that would incentivize federal users to adjust their use to more efficiently.