FCC votes to open up almost 11 GHz of spectrum to support 5G deployments
FCC commissioners approve rules for wireless operations in frequencies above 24 GHz, spectrum that is expected to be leveraged significantly as 5G technologies are commercialized during the several...
View ArticleESChat announces plans to support 3GPP mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT)...
Push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) provider ESChat announces plans to develop Mission Critical ESChat (MC-ESChat), which will provide “full compliance” with the new 3GPPP mission-critical push-to-talk...
View ArticlePSCR: Fidel Liberal explains how mission-critical open platform can bolster...
Fidel Liberal, an assistant professor at the University of Basque Country in Spain, describes the planned mission-critical open platform—usable by any developer wanting to build public-safety LTE...
View ArticleHarris set to exhibit mission-critical PTT, video, data over LTE
Harris Public Safety and Professional Communications (Harris PSPC) will demonstrate its mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) solution, as well as mission-critical data and mission-critical video...
View ArticleMCOP: Fidel Liberal discusses MCPTT open platform, ETSI plugfest in June
Fidel Liberal, coordinator of the mission-critical open platform (MCOP) initiative funded by the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division of NIST, talks about the value that MCOP can bring...
View ArticleHarris: Michelle Johnson, Ryan Seick discuss services enabled by...
Michelle Johnson and Ryan Seick of Harris explain how the company's next-generation VIDA core platform will provide additional flexibility to public-safety agencies, including support of certain...
View ArticleOfficials for AT&T, Nokia outline capabilities of upcoming MCPTT-compliant...
Voice services meeting the mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard developed by 3GPP—the body that oversees LTE development—will provide greater voice quality, performance and reliability than...
View ArticleVendors prepare to demonstrate mission-critical PTT, data, video...
Representatives from 30 vendors are slated to participate in next week’s ETSI Plugtest, which will include a series of technical exercises designed to demonstrate interoperability between various...
View ArticleParticipants express optimism about mission-critical LTE in wake of ETSI...
More than 120 engineers from 30 companies conducted a series of tests as part of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Plugtests event in an effort to ensure that LTE...
View ArticleInitial MCPTT tests deliver ‘significantly better’ audio quality than LMR,...
Mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) services will not be introduced commercially until late this year, but early tests of multiple vendors’ offerings exhibited “significantly better” audio-quality...
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