Cover Story

ROUGH WATERS

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Lynnette Luna

Network capacity and reliability problems, customer defections, uncertainty over its future technology plans, and the draining 800 MHz rebanding efforts - no matter which way it turns, Sprint Nextel finds itself in the middle of a tsunami....

Features

What goes 'round comes 'round

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Doug Mohney

Satellite is poised - finally - to become a viable alternative to cellular...

Better safe than sorry

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Robert E. Johnson

RF radiation safety program keeps technicians - and their companies - out of harm's way...

Enhancing mesh networks

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jay M. Jacobsmeyer, P.E.

Adaptive routing methods increase flexibility and survivability...

Don't wait for Armageddon

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dave Plank

Some believe the National Incident Management System should be used more often...

Rolling up the sleeves

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Implementation planning sessions begin to move rebanding beyond negotiation stage...

First Word

The way of the dinosaur

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Glenn Bischoff gbischoff@mrtmag.com

There are two kinds of companies in this world: those that evolve, and those that die. An example of the former is the Miller Brewing Co. Things were...

News

D Block auction picture gets murkier

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Frontline Wireless bails; sole bid - so far - is well short of minimum set by FCC...

700 MHz

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY DONNY JACKSON

FEBRUARY 2007 Congress does not seem eager to embrace the Cyren Call concept to reserve 30 MHz of 700 MHz commercial spectrum for a public/private nationwide...

M/A-COM lands Army contract

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY DONNY JACKSON

Tyco Electronics' M/A-COM unit won a $7.6 million contract from the U.S. Army for its Project 25IP trunked radio communications system. The four-site,...

New York, M/A-COM await April decision

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donnny Jackson

Meanwhile, state and vendor officials try to assuage performance concerns...

Sprint Nextel asks for 800 MHz relief

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Calls FCC order to vacate airwaves before end of rebanding 'arbitrary and capricious'...

ShotSpotter system saves lives in Boston

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM

ShotSpotter announced that its Gunshot Location System helped rescue two Boston gunshot victims in late December 2007. ShotSpotter's system alerted police...

SPRINT NEXTEL'S FAST TRACK TO POSSIBLE RELIEF

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY DONNY JACKSON

SEPT. 11, 2007 FCC approves order requiring Sprint Nextel to vacate 800 MHz channels on June 26, 2008. NOV. 8, 2007 Sprint Nextel appeals June 26 provision...

Bringing emergency alerts to new level

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Geographic targeting that ensures subscriber privacy is a big leap forward...

Bringing emergency alerts to new level

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY GLENN BISCHOFF

Sprint Nextel has agreed to deploy an emergency-alert solution developed by location-based services vendor SquareLoop that is designed to notify cellular...

View From The Top

Survey says: more tech, less complex

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Mark Moon

Recently, Motorola teamed with APCO to conduct a nationwide survey of 200 public safety users to examine their current technology usage and future needs....

First Response

Change is fantastic when managed well

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Willis Carter

As the winds of change continue to gust in our world of public safety communications, we struggle to maintain a strong footing to avoid being swept away....

IWCE Preview

The need for speed

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Glenn Bischoff

High-tech communications get ambulances to the scene faster...

Products

Power play

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY DOUG MOHNEY

At first glance, the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show doesn't seem the place to find technology applicable to first responder or homeland...

products

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM

700 MHz-ready product suite Tecore Networks of Columbia, Md., announced that its portfolio of software-defined and radio access network products now are...

Going to the birds

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Mary Rose Roberts

Radio and utility towers can cause injury or death for avian populations that crash into them, so vendors such as P & R Technologies of Portland, Ore.,...

product showcase

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM

CARLSON WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES INC. Carlson Wireless launched its new Ethernet Bridge (EB) wireless IP products, including networkable 2.4, 4.9 and 5.8-GHz...

Final Word

Now's the time to address BDA use

Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Alan Tilles

For several years, I've written numerous articles on the proper, and improper, use of bi-directional amplifiers, or BDAs, and similar devices. These include...