Posts Tagged ‘2016’

It may have been the worst-kept secret in the public-safety communications industry, but AT&T last week officially announced that it is leading one of the bidding teams vying for the right to build and maintain FirstNet’s nationwide public-safety broadband network for the next 25 years. This came as a surprise to no one, as AT&T…

Officials for pdvWireless this week confirmed the company’s much-rumored bid to build a nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) for FirstNet and expressed “frustration and disappointment” with the FCC regarding a proceeding centered around a pdvWireless proposal to transform 900 MHz LMR spectrum to broadband use. Read More

pdvWireless, a private wireless push-to-talk (PTT) carrier that holds 900 MHz spectrum, submitted a bid to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). In its fourth fiscal quarter and year-end financial results for the period ended March 31, the company — led by former Nextel Chairman Morgan O’Brien — announced it assembled a consortium of companies…

pdvWIRELESS Market Manager John Moriarty discusses recent FMCSA distracted driving research, how new regulations are affecting Houston-area businesses and how to balance employee efficiency and distractions while on the road. Read More.

As the FCC decides whether to rule on its proposal to transition some 900 MHz spectrum from land-mobile-radio (LMR) use to broadband, pdvWireless is buying and swapping airwaves in the band make its desired retuning task easier, according to Morgan O’Brien, the vice chairman for pdvWireless. Under the pdvWIRELESS proposal, a 5×5 MHz swath of…