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Public Safety Wearables, Hardened Handsets to Likely to Grow in 2019, Karp Says

Public safety will see more wearables for dispatch and hardened LTE handsets in 2019, Public Safety Network co-founder Jason Karp blogged Wednesday. Other predictions: consolidation in the land-mobile radio market. “Significant strides being made in public safety LTE are putting…

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pressure on LMR providers to innovate and rethink their legacy business models,” he said. There will be an “uptick in public safety technology startups” and public safety broadband networks will be offered in at least three other countries this year based on FirstNet's success, he said.