Barrett Communications announced two new certifications for its products. In August, the FCC certified the Barrett 4075 500-watt and 1,000-watt high power high-frequency (HF) transmitter series for U.S. operation.

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AT&T executive Jeff McElfresh was named CEO of AT&T Communications, replacing John Donovan, who announced his retirement last month. McElfresh will lead AT&T’s largest business unit, AT&T Communications, a global telecom firm serving 100 million mobile, broadband and pay TV customers in the United States, and millions of business customers, including nearly all of the Fortune 1000.

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PMeV – Netzwerk Sichere Kommunikation, the German association and network for critical communications, established a committee to address a platform for mission- and safety-critical broadband applications and is overseeing the standardization of a control center interface. Critical communications companies and officials from public authorities and organizations with security tasks are represented in the committee.

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Leonardo is providing the Warsaw Metropolitan Police headquarters with a Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) system that allows voice and data transmission through a web-based control center through 24 retransmission stations working in the LAN network, connected by microwave links.

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Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the Kazakhstan passenger and freight rail operator company, certified the successful integration of Teltronic’s TETRA solution with the European train control system (ETCS) provided by Bombardier Signaling, responsible for the signaling application for the Zhetygen – Altynkol line.

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Airbus provided secure communications technology to French security forces during the social-economical and political G7 Summit, which took place in the Southwestern coastal town of Biarritz, France, 24 – 26 August.

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Motorola Solutions welcomed one of the Apollo 15 astronauts, Alfred “Al” Worden, at its Krakow Innovation Center in Poland. Worden was part of the NASA Apollo missions team, the pilot of the command module Endeavour and the first man to take a trans-Earth spacewalk.

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Sen. Ted Cruz stepped in on the issue of 700 MHz interference with public-safety communications networks at the Mexican border. The senator sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting their quick attention to Altán Redes (Altán), which plans to begin operations of its wholesale wireless 700 MHz network in Mexico.

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The FCC granted a request by the county of San Diego for a waiver of FCC rules to allow it to submit a letter of concurrence from a short-spaced licensee that lacks the requisite certification that the licensee is constructed and operational

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Leah Wansley joined the FIRST iZ team as chief brand pilot and will oversee the company’s branding, marketing and public-relations efforts.

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