Purple Cow Industries, a construction waste management and skip bin provider across the Sydney metropolitan area, selected Vertel’s push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) service to enhance communications across its operations.

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Dali Wireless filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against John Mezzalingua Associates, doing business as JMA Wireless, for alleged infringement of U.S. patent numbers 10,344,499 and 9,820,171.

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Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced a new pilot program to deploy vehicle-to-everything (V2X) around the country to help prevent accidents involving first responders.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) conducted its final integration of smart city technologies this week in St. Louis in collaboration with the city, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the T-REX Innovation Center (T-REX).

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RapidDeploy Nimbus is now First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Listed and accessible via the FirstNet App Catalog.

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The U.K. Emergency Services Network (ESN) notified suppliers that it continues to seek solutions for Long Term Evolution (LTE) direct mode capability for the U.K. public-safety broadband network.

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SFR, the second-largest commercial operator in France, selected Motorola Solutions to provide a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) solution. The next-generation broadband PTT service will be delivered through SFR’s nationwide network, enabling customers to improve operational efficiency, accelerate business productivity and enhance customer service.

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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) selected Commdex to provide much-needed improvements for the CBP to enhance its LMR, solar power and backhaul transport radio capabilities within the Big Bend/Marfa sector. The CBP uses this system for communications by the border patrol agents during their surveillance missions to ensure safe and effective operation.

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Public Safety Communications Europe (PSCE) and GSMA published two reports on critical communications internet of things (IoT).

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Comments regarding the FCC’s fifth report and order and fifth further notice of proposed rulemaking adopting rules for transmitting Z-axis location information with indoor wireless 9-1-1 calls and seeking comment on narrowing the Z-axis location accuracy metric are due Feb. 18.

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