While CTIA 2007, the giant cellular/wireless show is going on in Orlando, Florida (March 27-29), another expo for public safety professionals, the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) is running concurrently in Las Vegas, Nevada, (March 28-30).

IWCE is sponsored by MRT magazine and is generating lots of news for public safety and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) users.

Sessions include Spectrum Utilization, Land Mobile Radio, 800 MHz Rebanding, Broadband Mobile Data, Emerging Technologies and Interoperability

• Motorola announced the wide availability of its MOTOTRBO professional digital two-way radio system throughout North America. MOTOTRBO is a dual mode — analog and digital — system including portable and mobile radios, a repeater, accessories and data applications.


• Motorola launched the MC35 enterprise digital assistant, or EDA. The device provides all of the voice and high-speed data capabilities typical of personal digital assistants


• M/A-COM announced new P25 radios. The wireless vendor introduced the P5400, a P25 radio that is among the smallest in the industry for a public-safety-grade LMR device.


• M/A-COM unveiled a satellite-backhaul system. Its P25 rapid deployment satellite system that is designed to link LMR systems deployed in remote locations to the outside world.


• The $10B IWN project is in jeopardy, an audit report says. The much-anticipated, nationwide broadband network designed to serve federal law-enforcement users is “at a high risk of failure,” according to an audit released this week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general.

DailyWireless has more on Frontline’s 700MHz Plan, Verizon’s $6B Smackdown and the FCC’s 700MHz Rules.

Posted by Sam Churchill on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 9:59 am.