Cable / Telecom News

SPECTRUM: First responders wireless network inches forward


IN A FEW WEEKS AN experimental LTE service in the 700 MHz band will be running in Regina, bringing the plan of having a national voice and high speed data communications network for fire, police, ambulance and other first responders one step closer."Our (data network) core has arrived, we’re in the early stages of installation, and within a month or six weeks we'll have a bank of 14 facilities that – subject to completion of licencing – will be operational," Steve Palmer, executive director of the University of Regina's Collaborative Centre for Justice and Safety (CCJS), where the core is...