Colorado emergency call center selects NICE communications recorder 

Adams County Communications, based in Commerce City, Colo., will deploy a NICE Systems solution to record its emergency communications...

RELM announces $1.1 million federal order 

RELM Wireless announced that it has received a $1.1 million order from a federal agency for Project 25-compliant radios manufactured under the company’s BK Radio brand...

Ultra-compact two-way radio 

Cobra Electronics introduced the LI 6000-2 WX VP and LI 3900-2 DX VP two-way radios, each of which is small enough to fit into a pocket...

Apptis, SmartLink land public-safety contract 

Apptis and SmartLink Radio Networks recently announced a $3 million contract from Solano County, Calif., to design and deploy an interoperable radio system...

CML delivers Phase 2 system to Wisconsin PSAP 

CML Emergency Services said this week that it would deploy a system in Brown County, Wis., that would provide the county’s public-safety answering point with call-taking, ANI/ALI, mapping capabilities...

Wayne County opts for Codespear’s alert system 

By Donny Jackson

Michigan-based Codespear today announced that Wayne County, Mich., has selected its software to create emergency communications directly with the county’s residents, businesses and public-safety agencies...

Cingular launches P2T service 

Cingular announced that it has added push-to-talk service to its cellular offering...

NENA publishes i2 standard for VoIP E-911 

By Donny Jackson

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) today announced the publication of its i2 standard, which is designed to let voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers route emergency calls through the legacy E-911 system...

M/A-COM makes VIDA ready for TETRA 

By Donny Jackson

Under the name of parent company Tyco Electronics, M/A-COM this week announced that its IP-based VIDA Network Platform can support the TETRA digital standard commonly used by public-safety entities in Europe, Asia and Latin America...

NTT DoCoMo CEO: 3G poised to take off in U.S. 

By Glenn Bischoff

NEW YORK--Recent consolidation among commercial wireless operators in the U.S. will set the stage for next-generation, or 3G, wireless networks to proliferate in the U.S., said Nobuharu Ono, president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo USA...

DOJ agency seeks ideas on public-safety interoperability 

By Glenn Bischoff

The National Institute of Justice, the research-and-development wing of the Department of Justice, this week issued a call for papers on emerging technology solutions for public-safety interoperable communications...

Sprint Nextel, cable operators announce joint venture 

By Donny Jackson

Sprint Nextel and a consortium of cable companies yesterday announced a joint venture that will let them offer a “quad play” of integrated voice, video, data and wireless communications during the first half of next year...

Coast Guard uses F4W network in Wilma’s aftermath 

By Donny Jackson

Tactical wireless broadband solutions developer F4W yesterday announced it has deployed a disaster-response network in Miami in support of the U.S. Coast Guard’s relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Wilma...

CML lands Montana 911 deal 

By Donny Jackson

Emergency communications systems provider CML Emergency Services today announced an agreement to provide equipment to public-safety answering points (PSAPs) throughout the state of Montana...

C-AT interoperability solution selected for federal program 

By Donny Jackson

The Commercial Equipment Direct Assist Program (CEDAP) has selected the Incident Commander’s Radio Interface (ICRI) from Communications-Applied Technology (C-AT) for inclusion in its 2006 catalog of approved products for smaller entities to request via application, C-AT announced today...