Kungsbacka, south of Gothenburg, Sweden, is home to one of Halland County’s ambulance stations. The Ambulance Service in Halland County has been using the Swedish Rakel TETRA network since 2009 and recently implemented the latest Sepura portable radios to its fleet.

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Airbus appointed Andrew Forbes as the new head of the Middle East and North Africa region of Secure Land Communications. He replaces Selim Bouri, who has moved to another position within Airbus.

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Wireless carriers continue to lobby the FCC through the CTIA trade association on indoor location accuracy requirements, pushing for phased-in ±3-meter Z-axis accuracy requirements and pointing out challenges with the National Emergency Address Database (NEAD), which would provide dispatchable locations to 9-1-1 centers.

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A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) operational exercise brought together public-safety leaders to test technologies during a disaster response exercise.

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Sonim Technologies revised its financial guidance for fiscal 2019 and appointed Bob Tirva as interim chief financial officer (CFO).

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Several groups supplied Indonesian Federal Police command center vehicles with technology to access satellite broadband on the move.

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Juniata County Communications in Pennsylvania adopted the PowerPhone technology to meet a state mandate.

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The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) announced 2,350 Project 25 (P25) trunked and conventional systems in countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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The FCC reported that one public-safety answering point (PSAP), Dorchester Dispatch Center in South Carolina, was down Sept. 6 with calls rerouted to the Summerville, South Carolina, PSAP following Hurricane Dorian. By Sept 7, no outages affecting PSAPs in the disaster area were reported.

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The FCC is seeking comment on procedural changes that, if adopted, the commission said would streamline many administrative hearings under the Communications Act of 1934.

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