emergency services
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will offer free Starlink terminals to areas of Los Angeles affected by raging wildfires.
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Field service management (FSM) provider Totalmobile has announced the acquisition of Irish workforce management firm Gartan Technologies.
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BT Group has secured a £1.29 contract from the UK Home Office to provide mobile services for the country’s Emergency Services Network (ESN).
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Singtel-backed Australian operator Optus has been fined more than A$12 million (US$7.9 million) after it failed to provide access to emergency services following a nationwide outage.
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More than two decades after the idea started, one of the 50 states of the US has integrated its emergency call centres with FirstNet, the US public safety network run by AT&T.
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The UK’s competition authority will consider forcing Motorola to divest the obsolete Airwave emergency services network as one of the possible solutions to its inquiry.
Forthcoming events
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The merged Virgin Media O2 operator in the UK has been showing off 5G-connected drones that are designed to be used by emergency services.
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The Australian telecoms regulator has fined the local branch of Lycamobile for what it calls “public safety failures”.
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Icelandic's state-owned telecoms provider Neyðarlínan ohf has partnered with GenCell Energy to overcome challenging power requirements while reducing its environmental impact.
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BT’s mobile arm, EE, has given a contract to Nokia to augment its much delayed network for emergency services in Britain.
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Since the New South Wales (NSW) government officially declared a state of emergency in December, Australia has been in the grips of one of the worse bushfires in recent memory.