Open Mobile Alliance confirms industry standard for PoC 

The Open Mobile Alliance has made available the OMA push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) 1.0 Candidate Enabler, providing the mobile industry with the ability to deliver new services across multiple carriers and geographic boundaries...

Sensoria announces wireless VoIP on mobile mesh devices 

Sensoria, a San Diego-based vendor of mobile mesh software and equipment, this week announced that it has worked with TeleSym to develop a voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) solution for peer-to-peer wireless communications on all future Sensoria mesh-enabled devices...

APCO to help train Afghanistan emergency communicators 

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials this week said that the Kabul City Police (KCP) Communications Center Working Group has selected the APCO Institute Public Safety Telecommunicator I course as the standard it will use for training Afghanistan's first public safety communications professionals. ...

FreeLinc unveils two-way radio accessories 

FreeLinc announced a series of wireless headsets and speaker microphones for two-way radios...

FCC: VoIP offerings must include E-911 

By: By Donny Jackson

The Federal Communications Commission today unanimously voted to require voice-over-IP providers like Vonage to connect customers’ emergency calls through the established 911 network while providing location and callback information...

Law-enforcement group to honor Motorola 

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) tonight will present Motorola officials with its Distinguished Service Award ...

RELM adds VoIP to P25 basestations 

RELM Wireless said its BK Radio Series V Project 25-compliant digital basestations now are capable of transmitting and receiving voice-over-IP signals...

VoIP E-911 on FCC agenda 

As many expected, the agenda for the Federal Communications Commission’s meeting next Thursday features consideration of an order outlining E-911 requirements for voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers...

Analyst: Martin circulates VoIP 911 order 

By: By Donny Jackson

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed an order to be considered during the commission’s May 19 meeting that would require voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers to deliver 911 calls to the appropriate public-safety answering point (PSAP), according to an analyst report yesterday...

Intrado delivers VoIP E-911 solution with Verizon in New York 

By: By Donny Jackson

Leading 911 vendor Intrado has announced it is installing equipment to deliver voice-over-IP (VoIP) emergency-service calls in New York City directly to appropriate public-safety answering points (PSAPs) with address and call-back information through the traditional E-911 system...

Nextel introduces talk-group feature to P2T service 

By: By Donny Jackson

Nextel Communications yesterday announced Group Connect, a flexible new service that will let subscribers talk in groups to as many as 20 other Nextel push-to-talk users nationwide...

Martin ready to require VoIP 911 

By: By Donny Jackson

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin Tuesday said he plans to propose that voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers be required to provide emergency-calling services through the traditional 911 systems...

Transcrypt receives $500k order from international customer 

Transcrypt International said it has received a $500,000 order from an overseas customer which will deploy the company’s voice privacy products to secure communications within the customer's two-way radio system...

Motorola quarterly earnings increase  

Motorola reported first quarter 2005 net earnings of $692 million, a 14% increase over the $609 million reported in the same quarter last year...

Kenwood unveils new mobile radios  

Kenwood USA recently introduced the TK-2170/3170 VHF/UHF conventional and TK-3173 UHF trunked mobile radios...