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8 Vendors Participate in Month-Long P25 CAP Interoperability Event

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Eight Project 25 (P25) manufacturers are participating in a P25 Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) testing event underway this month. The companies are taking advantage of newly reaccredited P25 CAP laboratories and new test documentation and functionality. Eight labs were accredited against either the 2016 or 2017 compliance assessment bulletin (CAB). The 2017 CAB includes all
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Harris XL Radios Integrated with 3M Scott SCBA Equipment

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Harris’s XL line of radios now can be integrated with self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) solutions provided by 3M Scott Fire and Safety. The Harris XL-200P and XL-185P radios can now use Bluetooth 4.0-compliant technology to route audio to and from SCBA units, enhancing fire scene communications and improving worker safety. The radios’ software-defined architecture allows
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IMPROVING WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS AND COMMUNITY-INITIATED ALERTING LIMITED WAIVER OF WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT RULES

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Adopted: May 1, 2018 Released: May 1, 2018 By the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1. In this Order, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) grants a limited waiver of the Commission’s Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) rules to permit Participating Commercial Mobile Service
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LOCATION-BASED ROUTING FOR WIRELESS 911 CALLS

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Adopted: May 2, 2018 Released: May 2, 2018 By the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau: 1. By this Order, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) grants the Joint Motion for Extension of Time to File Reply Comments (Joint Motion) submitted by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), the National Association of
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AMENDMENT OF PART 90 OF THE COMMISSION’S RULES

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I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Commission has allocated and designated 50 megahertz of spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band (4940-4990 MHz) to public safety. Although nearly 90,000 public safety entities are eligible under our rules to obtain licenses in the band, there were only 2,442 licenses in use in 2012 and only 3,174 licenses in use
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