Covia CEO Questions FirstNet Conventional Wisdom on LMR, LTE

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The growing conventional wisdom that FirstNet should not replace but augmentnland mobile radio (LMR) misses the mark, said one technology CEO in an interview. “I will saynflat-out that [of the] 90-something percent of the voice needs that public safety has, our platform can do onncommercial cellular networks, LTE and even 3G — large, large fraction of what public safety needs, we can do it today,” Covia Labs CEO David Kahn told us at the Association of Public-Safety CommunicationsnOfficials meeting. “Given that companies, and it’s not just Covia Labs, are making tremendous progressnon voice systems over LTE that are able to do what public safety needs a very large fraction [of thentime], why is FirstNet saying we’re not going to be a voice network?”