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WASHINGTON-Public-safety advocates last week told President George W. Bush that Voice over Internet Protocol services need to be required to have access to enhanced 911 services regardless of how VoIP …

WASHINGTON-Public-safety advocates Tuesday told President George W. Bush that Voice over Internet Protocol services need to be required to have access to enhanced 911 services regardless of how VoIP is …

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and The Consultant Registry, with the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, conducted a test to show how background sounds, which are important to …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and The Consultant Registry, with the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, conducted a test to show how background sounds, which are important …

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc. say they have buried the hatchet on several issues. The truce included the companies dropping their lawsuits against each other and a pledge by …

Before the spinoff of its chip business, Motorola Inc. often came across as an octopus-a many-sided giant. With Freescale Semiconductor Inc. now a standalone company, the wireless vendor still weighs …

WASHINGTON-A group that advocates for first-responder communications today sent letters to every member of Congress urging them to pass legislation that would require broadcasters to vacate TV channels that block …

WASHINGTON-The Association of Public-safety Communications Officials has released a set of best practices on how to deal with calls from telematics service providers. “Telematics is a great new technology and …

Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that is not realistic, the public-safety community …

WASHINGTON-Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that is not realistic, the public-safety community …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International named John Newman its new executive director. Newman joins APCO from Matsushita Communication Industrial Corp. of America, where he was vice …

WASHINGON-The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International today criticized a key report’s finding that federal regulators relax a government mandate governing one form of mobile-phone location-based 911 service. APCO said …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission stepped up its consumer-education campaign regarding wireless enhanced 911 Thursday when FCC Chairman Michael Powell appeared on the “CBS Early Show” to announce the release of …

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell invited all state officials responsible for deploying wireless enhanced 911 to the Federal Communications Commission in late October for the second part of the E911 Initiative, …

WASHINGTON-As lawmakers try to fix flaws they see in enhanced 911 services through various pieces of legislation, the Federal Communications Commission continues to punish carriers that have not properly deployed …

NASHVILLE-Catalyst Communications Technology, provider of Internet Protocol-based dispatch solutions for the public-safety mobile radio market, made two interoperability announcements at this month’s APCO show in Nashville. Catalyst announced that its …

WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Thursday denied a request from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to keep confidential test results showing some enhanced 911 Phase II technologies won’t work for …

WASHINGTON-A public-safety initiative to bring all those involved in enhanced 911 implementation together got off to a rocky start last week when many of the largest carriers said they had …

WASHINGTON-Fears about the timely deployment of enhanced 911 Phase II service appear to be coming true even as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission expressed optimism that the Oct.1 …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-Motorola and Russia’s RadioTel launched a TETRA trial network in the second-biggest Russian city of St. Petersburg last year, planning to turn the technology into a federal standard …

WASHINGTON-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. fully expects to meet the extended deadlines the Federal Communications Commission set out for it to implement enhanced 911, said the GSM carrier recently. “All of VoiceStream’s …

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has asked about a dozen federal agencies to evaluate the relocation costs and other needs associated with returning spectrum for private use. The NTIA …

WASHINGTON-Public-safety officials last week told a powerful lawmaker that his bill to get Internet high-speed access to rural America using low-power TV signals could damage public safety’s efforts to get …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the requirement that a cost-recovery mechanism be in place before carriers must deploy wireless enhanced 911 services. But the agency still will require …