

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.
