Verizon’s list of approved iOS devices for Group First Response includes the iPhone 11, iPhone XS, iPhone XR and iPhone SE. Because no one wants to add a service just on part of their users-the ones using Android-so this was a big win to get that included.” “We know that many police departments across the country use iOS, so that was a critical add for us. We’ve been putting that through a lot of testing to make sure it works and that it works as well as it does on Android “That will be our first offering for iOS customers, and we’re really excited about that. “It does include iOS and Android devices,” Nilan said. Previously, all MCPTT-capable devices have run only on the Android platform. “We are proud to bring new insight, awareness and efficiency to first responders with the only broadband PTT platform compliant with all three 3GPP standards: MCPTT, MCData and MCVideo, and the only streaming video service compliant with the MCVideo standard.Īlso notable is the fact that Verizon’s Group First Response is designed to work with devices that utilize both the Android and iOS operating systems, according to Nilan. “Motorola Solutions has been serving public safety agencies for more than 90 years and has a long history of innovation in push-to-talk communications,” John Zidar, Motorola Solutions’ senior vice president for global enterprise and channels, said in a prepared statement. In addition to MCPTT, Verizon’s Group First Response also supports the 3GPP standards for MCData and MCVideo, with the latter capability being something that is not immediately available in the Push-to-Responder offering that uses technology from Ericsson. Nilan said that Group First Response is able to support talkgroups with as many as 3,000 users and is backward-compatible with Verizon’s PTT+ offering that also is based on the Kodiak platform. Group First Response utilizes Release 10 of the Kodiak carrier-integrated PTT platform that is designed to meet the 3GPP Release 15 standard for MCPTT and is being trialed in the United Kingdom’s Emergency Services Network (ESN), which is supposed to replace the Airwave TETRA service in the UK, according to Verizon and Motorola Solutions. To be able to bring two solutions to meet the needs of this entire market.” “Being able to combine what 3GPP has enabled with mission-critical push to talk into these offerings that we’ve brought to market this fall is something that we’re incredibly excited about and pretty proud of. It needs to operate with the reliability that I expect from my radio platforms’-and the reliability that they expect from a Verizon network. “But we’ve always had that request of, ‘It needs to operate more like my radio systems. “We’ve seen good adoption over the years on our PTT and PTT+ platform that we’ve built, and that’s been great,” Nilan said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. Nick Nilan, Verizon’s director of public-safety product development, said that public-safety customers have expressed considerable interest in MCPTT, and Group First Response marks Verizon’s second MCPTT announcement after the carrier unveiled its Push-to-Responder offering in October. Verizon this week announced Group First Response, the carrier’s second mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) offering and the first one that leverages Motorola Solutions’ Kodiak MCPTT platform that includes 3GPP-compliant MCVideo and the ability to interoperate with LMR systems via the Critical Connect solution.
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