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Last week, Motorola Solutions Inc.'s stock got caught in an "air pocket," slipping 4 percent to $64.60 on a weaker-than-expected forecast for the first quarter. But CEO Greg Brown is upbeat after a big win in new public-safety technology.

A few years ago both Verizon and AT&T successfully launched their 4G LTE networks and are now coming close to completing LTE coverage throughout the country.

Organisers of the Comms Connect Sydney 2014 conference are reminding everyone that the deadline for submission of abstracts is 14 February.

The enhanced wireless platform is designed to better rapid response capabilities for government agencies. RAVEN mobile wireless systems can be deployed in any environment where establishing rapid communications dominance is imperative

Operator of UK emergency services TETRA radio network to work on EU FP7 project to develop next generation Public Protection and Disaster Recovery network

The joint development of next generation public safety radio systems will provide plenty of new opportunities, especially in the countries where a dedicated frequency band has been assigned to a public safety broadband system (LTE)

TETRA is the de-facto standard for public safety communications today and for a considerable time to come, says Tony Gray, Chair of the Critical Communications Broadband group.

Norwegian postal and telecommunications regulator PT has published a thirteen-page document on its frequency management plans for 2014.

As the CCBG (Critical Communications Broadband Group) and other stakeholder groups globally continue to progress standards work through 3GPP, ETSI and other SDOs, the Chairman of the CCBG, Tony Gray, believes that there will be considerable advances durin

Multiple vendors participating in the trial demonstrate that first-responder agencies will be able to leverage new LTE capabilities while continuing to use their existing communications systems, which in turn will smooth out the migration path to FirstNet

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Mobile Broadband in Public Safety market to grow at a CAGR of 7.28 percent over the period 2012-2016

Presidential Partners Consulting released a white paper on the perceived impact of broadband to telecommunicators and 9-1-1 centers.

PSCR Emil Olbrich, the organization's head of research and development predicts that Android ultimately will be the operating system of choice for public safety, despite the fact that it currently is less secure than other operating systems.

According to Urgentcomm, the embracement of the international community of public-safety LTE is one of the top stories of 2013

This Challenge seeks innovative solutions to providing mission‐critical voice communications services for law enforcement and other public safety responderen..

In December 2013 Andrew Seybold gave a talk at the APCO Technology Forum in Boston, the event was well attended, and the subject matter was great

The Telecommunications Industry Association TR-8 Mobile & Personal Private Radio Standards Engineering Committee met and focused on producing a number of documents relating to Packet Data services and Location services.

All tests proved that by leveraging existing sites and using neighbouring frequency bands, new 4G mobile broadband capabilities could be added to existing Tetrapol and TETRA networks in a non-disruptive and cost-effective way, said Cassidian.

PriMo was used to connect fixed and mobile video units, smartphones and laptops.

What seems to be on the minds of everyone in the industry is convergence. When will an LTE network and LTE device provide not only data but also Mission Critical Push-To-Talk (PTT) Voice, replacing an LMR system and LMR device?