by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 15, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
Public-safety use of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band should be protected via a priority-and-preemption rules that allows sharing with critical-infrastructure entities, but exactly how this scheme is implemented remains a topic of considerable debate, according to dozens of comments to the FCC exploring the matter.
Comments about the best use of 4.9 GHz (4940 MHz to 4990 MHz) were due to the FCC in the latest proceeding about the airwaves, which traditionally have been dedicated to public safety but have been underutilized in the paAll Postsst, according to FCC commissioners. In the proceeding, the FCC is examining an alternative path for the band rather than implement the state-licensing scheme approved during the fall of 2020—rules that were halted last year…
by ECC Editor | Jan 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
AKRON, Ohio — An Akron couple is thankful for an area dispatcher after she helped them deliver their baby.
The couple, who does not wish to be identified, had the baby earlier than expected at their home in the Akron area. The wife told the husband she was having contractions, then shortly later said, “the baby is coming now!”
The husband called 911 and dispatcher Alescia Maxwell took the call. She then began to walk the husband through the delivery process. Within a few minutes they were screaming that the baby’s head was coming out… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
PHOENIX – Specialized professionals will soon handle certain mental health-related 911 emergency calls in Tempe, the East Valley city announced Friday.
Under a groundbreaking plan set to go into effect Jan. 31, police officers will no longer be dispatched when somebody is threatening self-harm unless the subject is armed or violent.
Tempe will be the first Phoenix-area city with its own response team for mental health crisis calls, according to a press release…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team now has uncovered what went wrong the night a baby died in Cleveland after a man called 911 and ended up on hold for more than six minutes.
We’ve learned a Cuyahoga County dispatcher transferred the call to a line that was not working. It happened as technicians were working on the 911 system to give it an upgrade.
Last month, we exposed the breakdown…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Comm Center News
Digital 9 buys Irish wireless network – Digital 9 Infrastructure says that its subsidiary, Digital 9 Wireless has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement to buy a majority (56%) stake in Tetra Ireland Communications, the exclusive operator of public safety wireless networks across the Republic of Ireland. The total price is about €76m and there may be a chance to buy the other 44%, which would increase the total cost to approximately €136m.
With this transaction, Digital 9 has now deployed or committed substantially all of its available capital…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Comm Center News
East Lyme — From a public entrance with its window into a state-of-the-art dispatch center to a secure area for prisoners and evidence, the public safety building is ready to deliver new levels of efficiency and professionalism to some of the town’s emergency services.
The $7.4 million hub for police, dispatch, emergency operations and the fire marshal’s office was first approved in early 2019, when then-First Selectman Mark Nickerson described the new independent police force’s working conditions as “deplorable”…
