Motorola, Verizon establish public-safety LTE alliance

Motorola Solutions and Verizon Wireless announced an alliance between the two companies to provide a solution that is designed to ease public-safety agencies’ transition to their own private LTE broadband networks operating in the 700 MHz band.

While Motorola is working with more than 200 public-safety entities to deploy LTE networks, funding issues have caused many agencies to delay construction entirely or drastically reduce the scale of their initial broadband wireless buildouts. Through the new alliance, Motorola plans to provide public-safety customers with an opportunity to leverage LTE applications across Verizon’s commercial network as a coordinated supplement to a private LTE network and/or a roaming partner when the private network is not available.