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Harris: CTO Dennis Martinez talks about the LTE standards process for...
The Urgent Communications PodcastDennis Martinez, chief technology officer (CTO) and vice president for public-safety LTE for Harris, explains the company's position that a mission-critical voice...
View ArticleLTE standards group targeting mission-critical push-to-talk specifications...
Officials for 3GPP, the standards body for LTE technology, say the organization plans to establish a standard for mission-critical-voice functionality over LTE early next year. That action could have...
View ArticleThree years after its creation, it is time for FirstNet to begin making key...
Three years after being established by Congress, FirstNet has not made as much deployment progress as many public-safety and industry officials had hoped. However, most of the main components appear to...
View ArticleInternational push expected to ensure that mission-critical PTT standard for...
A standard to deliver LTE mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) capability that includes greater functionality than today’s land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems should be completed by the fall of 2016 at...
View ArticleRural carriers interested in partnering with FirstNet, but urban/suburban...
FirstNet offers commercial-carrier partners a significant opportunity in rural America, but public safety’s needs in urban and suburban locations could be so great that there may not be much capacity...
View ArticleFirstNet fills key technical jobs, posts additional positions
FirstNet has filled key roles for leading the cybersecurity strategy and monitoring the development of standards public-safety LTE standards, and the organization continues to seek technical personnel...
View ArticleWant to keep track of FirstNet’s progress? Here are some key dates,...
When is FirstNet going to be built and provide the kind of reliable broadband services that the public-safety community has been seeking for the past decade? Here's one projection, based on FirstNet's...
View ArticleLTE standards body set to complete mission-critical PTT standard in March
A standard for mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) over LTE is on track to be completed in March, according to an official with 3GPP, which oversees the development of standards for LTE technology....
View ArticleFCC official addresses T-Band issue during hearing before Congress
Public-safety agencies depending on LMR communications systems operating on T-Band spectrum should experience “no loss of service—no loss of continuity” as a result of a federal mandate that requires...
View Article3GPP approves standard for mission-critical PTT (MCPTT) over LTE in Release 13
Mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) functionality is now part of the LTE standard in Release 13, which was “frozen” by the 3GPP standards body last week in Sweden. As a result, MCPTT-capable...
View ArticleOfficials provide more specifics about mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT)...
Functionalities associated with the new mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard for LTE are designed to meet or exceed the capabilities and performance benchmarks for existing land-mobile-radio...
View ArticleESChat, Tait and Avtec demonstrate LMR-LTE full-featured interoperability via...
Three companies—ESChat, Tait Communications and Avtec—conduct a joint demonstration at IWCE 2016 highlighting the ability to leverage P25 gateway standards to enable full-featured communications...
View ArticleWill mission-critical PTT be FirstNet’s ‘killer app’?
With all of the broadband functionality promised by public-safety LTE, could mission-critical push-to-talk—a decidedly narrowband technology—be FirstNet's "killer app" that drives public-safety...
View ArticleFCC 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...
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