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Study Reveals Growing Need for Interoperable Radio Communications

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New Study Reveals Growing Need for Interoperable Radio Communications in U.S. Public Safety Sectors

DENVER, July 21, 2007 - Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01 have called considerable attention to the need for enhanced radio communications in the public safety sector. In both cases, first responders' operational capacity was compromised by their inability to communicate with each other in real time.

But this lack of interoperability is not just a technology problem but one also related to such factors as intellectual property rights, standards and marketing, according to a new study commissioned by the Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum (www.sdrforum.org), a nonprofit international industry association for reconfigurable wireless technology, and prepared by Jim Gunn, a noted market research and technology consultant specializing in digital wireless communications and multimedia communication systems.

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