Hytera Mobilfunk equipped the Polizia Locale di Milano, the Milanese municipal police, with a total of 1,750 new TETRA radios with Italian partner TP.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs of Cayman Islands signed a contract with Motorola Solutions to renew the government’s radio system with a Project 25 (P25) system with coverage throughout the country, including waterways for maritime units, helping improving its public-safety agencies’ response to emergencies.

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Motorola Solutions and Vodafone have agreed on a plan to keep the Airwave TETRA mission-critical voice network operational through at least 2020, while the U.K. Home Office said a report with a revised timeline and budget for the Emergency Service Network (ESN) should be available by end-July.

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IDA and Harris partnered to provide Project 25 (P25) customers with an integrated location and presence solution. Under an agreement, Harris will resell IDA's TrakIt application in North America and worldwide.

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Australia announced an A$1.2 billion (US$937 million) contract with Thales for the delivery and deployment of the OneSKY program to modernize and integrate the Australian airspace. Airservices Australia, the country’s air navigation service provider, manages the largest airspace in the world, totaling more than 11 percent of the globe.

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Sierra Wireless announced that Intellinium selected its device-to-cloud internet of things (IoT) solution for its smart safety shoe, designed to improve worker safety in remote, dangerous or noisy workplaces, such as construction sites, factories, mines, oil platforms, and commercial fishing and agriculture operations.

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Frequentis CEO and owner Hannes Bardach will move to the company’s supervisory board in mid-April, and Norbert Haslacher will become the new CEO.

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Tait Communications joined the Information Technology for Public Transport (ITxPT) initiative as a principal member. ITxPT started with the European Bus System of the Future project and continues to work on standardization and cost-effective deployment of intelligent public transport systems, including on board vehicles and the back-office applications to support them.

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The U.K.’s public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) Emergency Service Network (ESN) had its first successful demonstration over a live public mobile network.

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Mitsubishi Electric announced it filled an order by Tokyo Metro for radio equipment to be used in what is believed to be Japan’s first communications-based train control system (CBTC) for subways. The delivery includes wayside radio equipment for a branch of Tokyo Metro’s Marunouchi Line between Nakano-sakaue and Honancho stations and onboard radio equipment for a train that will be operated on the line for verification purposes.

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