The Department of Energy (DOE) expressed concerns with the FCC’s proposal to allow unlicensed devices in the 6 GHz band and said the commission should allocate dedicated spectrum for the energy and water industries.

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The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) urged the FCC to move forward with 9-1-1 indoor location requirements of ±3 meters for the Z axis.

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U.K. mobile carrier O2 will provide connectivity for a new “smart ambulance” at Millbrook Proving Ground this month, as part of a trial to benefit patient diagnosis, transport and treatment.

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Iridium Communications was awarded a $738.5 million, seven-year, fixed-price contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSpC) to provide unlimited satellite services from its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

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Barrett Communications’ high-power high-frequency (HF) systems are upgrading communications at Peru’s Jorge Chavez International Airport.

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Intertek, a total quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, was approved by AT&T as a preferred testing and certification laboratory for the AT&T IoT Accelerator Program. Intertek is the first U.S. lab approved as part of this program, which offers pre-negotiated pricing for PCS Type Certification Review Board (PTCRB) and AT&T network certification testing to device makers that want to launch internet of things (IoT) devices on the AT&T network.

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Ericsson said its SEK 500 million Swedish krona (US$51.7 million) transformation of the company’s existing factory in Nanjing, China, concluded. The resulting automated factory stands among the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the industry, the company said.

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Iridium Communications and OneWeb announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering. This combined service would make it easier for their mutual partners to offer bundling and co-marketing opportunities for the Iridium Certus L-band services and OneWeb’s Ku-band service.

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HAAS Alert, a Chicago-based startup that alerts drivers of emergency vehicles, completed the first pilot of fleet cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) tests on Sprint’s 5G network in Chicago. The tests by the fleet collision prevention company achieved a 40 percent faster transmission time for alerts because of increased speeds and lower latency, with a decrease in variance of 72 percent on Sprint’s 5G network compared with Long Term Evolution (LTE), the companies said.

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Wabtec is implementing Septentrio GPS receivers in its latest GoLINC platform as part of its positive train control (PTC) solution for freight railroads in the United States.

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