Motorola system selected by CynergyBy: From staff and wire reports Motorola announced that Cynergy, a gas and electric utility that provides service in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, would install the company's Harmony Wireless... First responders lack radio trainingBy: BY GLENN BISCHOFF In the state of Utah, police officers receive about 80 hours of training per year on job-related functions, such as marksmanship, but they spend virtually... NEWS BRIEFSBy: From staff and wire reports Qualcomm, LG strike deal to develop P2T handsets Qualcomm has entered into an agreement with LG Electronics to develop push-to-talk handsets based on... RF amplifiers coming and goingBy: BY HAROLD KINLEY Radio frequency amplifiers are used on both receivers and transmitters. Generally, receivers incorporate an RF amplifier stage internal to the receiver.... Soaring CONDOR relieves headachesBy: BY DOUG MOHNEY On the road to Baghdad, U.S. Marine Corps units quickly outran their line-of-sight radio links. That forced them to rely instead on Iridium satellite... Utilities fail to fulfill SMR promiseBy: BY JIM BARTHOLD In this deregulated, hyper-competitive age, public utilities increasingly find themselves starving for new revenue streams. So it might appear a bit surprising... Vendor-Customer Relationships 101By: BY ALAN TILLES In the March issue of MRT, I hinted at the changes that can be expected in agreements between public-safety agencies and their vendors as a result of... Racial slurs prompt radio overhaulBy: By Jim Barthold Chicago Fire Department reprograms 1400-plus radios; city speeds digital migration... Self-inflicted woundsBy: By Glenn Bischoff One of my favorite television commercials at the moment is one that touts the services of a commercial wireless carrier in the Midwest. In it, a young... Wi-Fi hits the open road and moreBy: By Doug Mohney RVers, mariners, long-haul fliers and soldiers see benefits of wider deployment... Bridging devices in disparate bandsBy: By Harold Kinley Interoperability often depends on linking networks operating outside of 800 MHz... IP is the future but when?By: By Glenn Bischoff While topics such as 800 MHZ interference, interoperability and Homeland Security created most of the buzz at the recent IWCE 2004 in Las Vegas, another... News BriefsBy: From staff and wire reports Motorola earnings rocket in first quarter Motorola announced net earnings for first-quarter 2004 of $609 million 25 cents per share on sales of $8.6 billion.... Nortel proposes VoIP 911 solutionBy: By Donny Jackson Solution would leverage existing architecture to keep PSAP investment costs low... Small-town police force thinks bigBy: By Jim Barthold Cops in tiny Minnesota village use wireless broadband to flush out drug traffickers... |
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