American Tower and SpectraSite to merge  

American Tower said it would merge with rival SpectraSite in a stock-for-stock exchange, creating the nation’s largest tower company with more than 22,000 wireless and broadcast towers and more than $1 billion in annual revenue...

Nortel to buy PEC Solutions 

By: By Donny Jackson

Nortel Networks today announced that it has agreed to acquire PEC Solution for about $448 million as part of its efforts to focus on the federal-government marketplace...

PCTEL launches multi-band antennas for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks 

PCTEL has introduced a line of multiple-band antennas designed to operate with dual-band or wideband RF radios transmitting in multiple microwave frequencies...

NICE to buy Dictaphone's communications recording assets 

Israel-based NICE Systems said it would purchase Dictaphone’s Communications Recording Systems business for about $38.5 million...

Padcom, Nextel to co-market roaming software 

Padcom said it has reached a joint marketing agreement with Nextel to co-market Padcom's TotalRoam software...

Report: Motorola repeater worked properly on 9/11 

By: By Glenn Bischoff

A draft report issued yesterday by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology indicated that a New York City Fire Department repeater manufactured by Motorola and located in the World Trade Center’s north tower worked properly on Sept. 11, 2001...

IWCE: EADS to purchase Nokia’s TETRA assets 

By: By Glenn Bischoff

LAS VEGAS--EADS announced it plans to acquire Nokia’s TETRA assets. EADS expects the transaction to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2005, pending regulatory approvals, said Peter MacLaren, the company’s president of public safety...

IWCE: The promise and peril of SDR for first responders 

By: By Doug Mohney

LAS VEGAS--Software-defined radio (SDR) holds both potential benefits for first responders and requires issues to be resolved, said Fred Frantz, director of law enforcement programs for L-3 Government Systems. Speaking at a Wednesday afternoon session on interoperability at the 2005 IWCE conference, Franz said “the killer app” for SDR is interoperability. “SDR has the potential for first responders to load in waveforms at incidents,” allowing them to easily communicate with each other and other agencies. ...

IWCE: Harris unveils H-Class platform 

By: By Donny Jackson

LAS VEGAS--Harris yesterday debuted its H-Class content-delivery platform, which is designed to let public-safety agencies deliver rich media content such as video to first-responder vehicles via datacasting from television broadcast towers...

Anritsu unveils handheld cable and antenna analyzers 

Anritsu yesterday introduced the Broadband Site Master S810D/S820D cable and antenna analyzers that provide “greatly increased” frequency coverage and enable the precise detection of faults in cables and antennas used in wireless backhaul and defense applications...

Transcrypt announces wins worth $1.1 million  

Transcrypt International recently announced that it had received a $586,000 from a new customer in Africa...

Tait announces new president  

Tait North America has appointed William P. Fredrickson as its president...

Provigent announces $10 million funding round 

System-on-a-chip (SoC) provider Provigent yesterday announced it has increased its third round of funding to $10 million, raising the company’s total funding to date to $21 million...

Padcom inks deal with Dell 

By: By Donny Jackson

Wireless connectivity vendor Padcom yesterday announced it has teamed with computing giant Dell to create a wireless data solution for the public-safety market...

Link Communications unveils interoperability software 

Link Communications has introduced a software solution that enables first responders to remotely operate the company’s Tactical Communications Bridge (TCB-2) interoperability solution over an Ethernet port or over a network...