Motorola system works fine, says Philly police 

By: By Glenn Bischoff

A Philadelphia police department official this week supported what Motorola has been saying for the past couple of months: that recent troubles with the two-year-old system were someone else’s fault, in this case Verizon Communications...

RCA spring event set for May 4 

The Radio Club of America announced that its second annual West Coast spring gathering will be held May 4 at Tony Roma’s in the Willow Shopping Center in Concord, Calif...

Bluesocket adds three hospitals as customers 

Wi-Fi security and management vendor Bluesocket this week announced contracts with three hospitals, giving the company more than 100 healthcare-provider customers...

EFJohnson receives $2.8 million in DOD orders 

EFJ Inc. subsidiary EFJohnson has announced two U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) orders for Project 25 radios and accessories totaling $2.8 million...

NetMotion Wireless boasts record growth; name new CEO 

NetMotion Wireless, a provider of mobility management solutions, this week announced the addition of 109 new customers during the second half of 2004...

Alvarion inks deal with Verizon subsidiary 

Alvarion this week announced that Verizon Avenue, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that focuses on the rural and multidwelling-unit markets, has purchased about 2300 BreezeACCESS VL fixed wireless broadband units to provide high-speed access to five military communities in Monterey, Calif...

MeshDynamics offers first three-radio solution for mesh networks 

MeshDynamics this week announced the availability of its MD-300 family of software and systems products—a mesh networking solution that the company claims will yield bandwidth improvements that are more than 50 times greater than those provided by traditional mesh networks...

Boost Mobile expands P2T service in Canada, South America 

In partnership with NII Holdings and Canada’s TELUS Mobility, youth market-focused MVNO Boost Mobile this week announced expansion of its push-to-talk service in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru...

NexGen City sues Motorola, MeshNetworks for merging 

By: By Donny Jackson

Dallas-based NexGen City has filed a $100 million lawsuit in a Texas state court alleging that Motorola and its acquisition, MeshNetworks, conspired to create a monopoly in the peer-to-peer wireless market for public-safety and homeland-security applications...

Tennessee utility to deploy Radio Satellite AVL system 

Radio Satellite Integrators (RSI) said it has won a contract from Consolidated Utility District (CUD) to deploy its automatic vehicle location system...

M/A-COM to deploy data radio system in Virginia 

M/A-COM announced yesterday it has been awarded a $1.3 million contract by the County of Albemarle (Va.), City of Charlottesville (Va.) and the University of Virginia (UVA)...

TELUS Mobility introduces PTT to its PCS network 

TELUS Mobility last week announced its Instant Talk service, Canada’s first push-to-talk (PTT) offering available on a national PCS network...

Harris, Midwest Radio ink Jefferson County deal 

Harris Corp. and dealer Midwest Radio Systems this week announced the sale and installation of Intraplex Synchrocast multiplexers to increase the coverage and reliability of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s department and 911 dispatch center, which is located near St. Louis...

Digital Dispatch to supply western transit agency  

Digital Dispatch Systems said it would provide more than 250 iPilot 8000 mobile computers to a major public transit agency in the Western United States...

I.D. Systems gets U.S. Postal Service contract 

I.D. Systems today announced that it has won a three-year contract worth at least $4 million to deploy its Wireless Asset net tracking and management system in at least eight major U.S. Postal Service (USPS) facilities...