The Osceola County (Florida) School District and Florida State University (FSU) are implementing Mutualink’s real-time emergency interoperability solution. Leon County, home to FSU’s main campus, is also deploying the technology.

U.K. Home Office and public-safety officials researched the Kodiak push-to-talk (PTT) solution from Motorola Solutions for the country’s public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) network during a trip to the United States last week. The group is considering moving to the Kodiak technology rather than the previously planned Motorola WAVE 7000.

A report from ABI Research found the total mission-critical communications market for base stations, repeaters, handsets and infrastructure in 2022 will be US$10 billion. The North American market continues to account for more than half of this world market with the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region in second place with a 20 percent market share.

Grant County, Wisconsin, awarded Federal Engineering a contract to evaluate the county’s existing conventional simulcast VHF system and make recommendations for modification, expansion and possibly replacement of the radio infrastructure.

The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) updated its report, “Best Practices for Public Safety Interoperable Communications.”

Mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT) provider Nemergent Solutions joined TCCA. As well as developing MCPTT software products based on open standards, the Nemergent team works alongside integrators and service providers to provide consolidated MCPTT solutions tailored to individual customer needs.

A National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) report describes emission spectrum and time domain measurements of a contraband wireless device microjammer operated temporarily in four commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) bands at a federal correctional institution (FCI) in Cumberland, Maryland. The four jammed CMRS bands were between 730 MHz and 2.155 GHz.

Representatives from 30 global telecommunications companies will join dozens of observers from U.S. state and federal agencies, as well as international participants, to test public-safety communications and related technologies during the second international Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) Plugtests event set for June 25 – 29 at Disaster City on the Texas A&M University (TAMU) campus in College Station, USA.

Spectrum policy expert Pierre de Vries, PhD, will deliver the keynote address at the 2018 Wireless Leadership Summit sponsored by the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA). Dr. de Vries will share his analysis of next-generation wireless systems and the difficulties and opportunities these emerging technologies pose for spectrum policy and business development.

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