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January 20, 2022
In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, students have been increasingly learning remotely. However, up to one-quarter of Americans do not have a reliable internet connection at home, with urban and rural areas suffering the most.
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To address this issue, many school districts received funds for sustainable internet-boosting infrastructure through the government’s Emergency Connectivity Fund.
Texas’s Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD), which is the fifth-largest school district in Texas, used this emergency funding to work with BearCom to create its own private LTE network via a CBRS platform.
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July 16, 2021
2021 marks BearCom’s 40th anniversary. When the company started, it consisted of two employees and an initial inventory of 40 two-way radios. They specialized in renting two-way radios to small, local events.
Now, forty years later, the business has grown to over 1,000 employees, and it is Motorola’s #1 Channel Partner worldwide.
In fact, BearCom now has over 80 branch locations across the country, all backed by its 92,000-square-foot fulfillment and support center in Dallas. Today, the company is focused on moving forward with the same ambition it showed four decades ago.
As BearCom adapts to stay in front of the latest cutting-edge technology, the team has evolved too. Since February 2019, Bob Craycraft has been the President and CEO of BearCom. His expertise spans industries, but his forward-thinking approach to driving growth and operational efficiencies makes him uniquely qualified to help BearCom continue to grow.
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August 08, 2018We are pleased to announce that through the generosity of Jerry Denham, Executive Chairman and Brent Bisnar, Executive Vice President & Co-Founder this rewarding program has been extended through the year 2023! This scholastic program recognizes deserving employees’ children who demonstrate scholastic ability, character, diversity and plan to continue their education in college or vocational school programs. This program was conceived by Jerry and Brent as a way to give back to those BearCom employees and their families who have shown a tenured commitment of three years or more to BearCom’s success. Thank you Jerry and Brent! With this in mind, we are pleased to announce the BearCom Scholars program winners for the academic year of 2018-2019. Once again, this year’s program is generously recognizing seven accomplished honorees! The 2018 BearCom Scholars winners are:
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December 16, 2014Business radio customers across the Rocky Mountain region are about to have more options to choose from thanks to BearCom’s recent acquisition of Frontier Radio Communications, which is based in Denver and Colorado Springs. Frontier Radio has been in business since 1988, serving thousands of two-way radio customersin industry, manufacturing, hospitality, education, hospitals and public safety. Key clients include major ski resorts, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and the city of Aurora, the Denver Post reported. The acquisition, announced December 1st, helps broaden the scope of services available to customers in the Front Range and the wider Rocky Mountain region. Principally, BearCom’s radio rental program, which is the largest in the country, will become available to current and future clients in business,
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September 17, 2014There are no loopholes in Murphy’s Law when it comes to two-way radio networks. A construction worker drops a handheld radio, then kicks it down two flights of stairs. Lightning strikes a radio antenna tower and turns a base station into a brick. Just about anything bad that can happen to your radio gear will happen no matter how careful you are. That’s why BearCom has one of the most extensive repair and field-service programs in the United States. Here’s a look at how we keep our customers’ radio networks running at full power: The BearCom Repair Depot We repair roughly
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September 10, 2014Once you’ve invested in a two-way radio network for your business, you need a way to contain the costs that accompany an equipment purchase. Paying for parts and hiring technicians to repair radios, repeaters and base stations might not be a big deal if your business owns a small network that is not operations-critical to your business. But the larger your radio fleet is — and the more deeply it is integrated into your business — the greater the likelihood that an equipment failure will stick you with costly breakdowns that can threaten your company. As the largest dealer of two-way radio equipment in the United States, BearCom has extensive experience with a vast array of radio network configurations. That experience helped us develop a three-tiered system of Service Level Agreements to cover the needs of a broad range of businesses. We can help you decide whether your company needs a basic Bronze
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September 03, 2014The bigger a two-way radio network gets, the harder it becomes to keep everything up and running at peak efficiency. A sophisticated two-way radio network contains a web of radios, repeaters and transmitters that might connect hundreds of two-way radios. As more radio owners switch to digital transmissions, they are adding their radio networks to their Internet protocol, or IP, networks. That, in turn, integrates their digital transmissions into their wider IT infrastructure. As a leading provider of two-way radio networks, BearCom has developed extensive expertise in troubleshooting problems in radio transmissions. All that comes into play with BearCom’s managed services, which allow us to monitor a customer’s network in real time and get problems solved much more quickly because a technician can fix the problem remotely rather than travel to the customer’s site.
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August 26, 2014BearCom’s preventive maintenance plans are designed to reduce the likelihood of your two-way radio network failing when you need it most. These plans have four key benefits
- Keeping equipment in top condition
- Extending service life and saving money
- Ensuring your fleet is operating within manufacturer specs and remaining compliant with FCC regulations
- Reducing uncertainty and removing the guesswork
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August 19, 2014There’s a force in the universe that we do not truly understand which seems to cause manufactured goods to malfunction at the most inconvenient time after the manufacturer’s warranty expires. That’s why BearCom offers warranties for up to three years beyond the factory warranties. Respected two-way radio manufacturers will pay the cost of repairing defects that crept in on the assembly line, within limits. And no matter how hard these companies try to minimize defects (trust us, they try very hard), some radios malfunction after the warranty period ends. Why should you invest in an extended warranty for your two-way radios? If your company’s radios reside in the “handy to have around” category, you might be able to sneak by without an extended
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August 12, 2014Acquiring a sophisticated communications network is not like buying a radio at your local big-box retailer. It requires patience, preparation and perseverance on your end and exacting attention to detail on ours to make sure you get the best return on your two-way radio investment. Your network will have multiple components — radios, repeaters, cabling, headsets, antennas — that have to be special-ordered from multiple manufacturers, tested on our site, installed on your site and adjusted to iron out any unanticipated wrinkles. That process typically takes six to eight weeks. Here’s a look at each key step in the installation and deployment phase. Phase one: ordering the equipment With your order in hand, BearCom will work with our manufacturing partners and their engineering teams