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Sweden Moves Forward on Plan for Public-Safety Broadband

June 29, 2020 | Comments

The Swedish government 25 June issued two assignments to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), which will be the starting point for the work to develop a robust and effective broadband communications system for public-safety users.

June 25, 2020 | Comments

Anterix announced its executive leadership succession plan, with the board of directors unanimously appointing Anterix's President Rob Schwartz to succeed Morgan O'Brien as CEO and O'Brien to succeed Brian McAuley as executive chairman.

June 25, 2020 | Comments

The FCC plans to address the issue of 9-1-1 indoor location accuracy requirements at its July open meeting.

June 24, 2020 | Comments

Allerio announced that it passed all FCC and carrier certification requirements for its Allerio Mobile Hub platform to operate on three U.S. nationwide networks simultaneously. Allerio is a portable connectivity platform that optimizes cellular connectivity, enabling first responders in the field to reliably record, share, and transmit critical patient and other broadband data for telemedicine at the point of care and in transit.

June 24, 2020 | Comments

The FCC is seeking comment on a June 15 T-Mobile USA outage that prevented customers from making calls, receiving calls and in some cases, sending text messages over T-Mobile’s voice-over LTE (VoLTE) network. According to social media reports, the outage also affected 9-1-1 calling for T-Mobile customers.

June 23, 2020 | Comments

Earlier this month, CTIA and representatives from the nationwide wireless providers met with FCC officials to discuss adopting an alternative nationwide Z-axis benchmark that will deliver ±3 meter vertical location information for what the carriers said would be far more wireless 9-1-1 calls than can be achieved under the FCC’s existing benchmark.

June 23, 2020 | Comments

Several 6 GHz microwave equipment vendors that supply mission-critical backhaul networks said interference in the band is inevitable under new FCC rules that allow unlicensed devices into the spectrum for the first time and offered some suggestions to incumbent licensees.

June 22, 2020 | Comments

The FCC has permitted unlicensed devices to share the 6 GHz band with public-safety and critical infrastructure industries (CII) microwave systems. By permitting such sharing without first demonstrating that co-existence can work in the field, there is a dangerous risk with disastrous consequences.

June 19, 2020 | Comments

The federal classification for telecommunicators and securing funding for next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1), as well as the next revision of its i3 NG 9-1-1 standard, all remain key priorities for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), said NENA President Brian Fontes.

June 18, 2020 | Comments

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are calling for research proposals in support of improved disaster resilience.