The government of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, commissioned Leonardo, in collaboration with Telecom Argentina, to install a new TETRA communications network for use by the Policía de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

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The South Tyrolean Civil Protection Agency in Italy went live with a system upgrade and expansion to its integrated command-and-control center. The agency worked with Hexagon and Frequentis to upgrade and integrate its Frequentis communications platform with Hexagon’s CAD system.

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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee for Reconfigurable Radio Systems (TC RRS) announced the completion of the specification for the support of licensed shared access (LSA). This provides a means to enable spectrum-sharing coordination between LSA licensees and existing spectrum licensees, ensuring quality of service (QoS).

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Trilogy International Partners announced that its New Zealand subsidiary, 2degrees, filed a joint proposal with Vodafone and Spark to improve broadband and mobile services in rural New Zealand.

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Airbus and SITA launched new security operations center services customized for the specific needs of the air transport industry. The new incident detection services will provide airlines, airports and other air transport industry stakeholders with information about unusual cyber activity that may impact their businesses.

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Sierra Wireless completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of GlobalTop Technology’s global navigation satellite system (GNSS) embedded module business for total cash consideration of about US$3.2 million, subject to working capital adjustments.

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Hytera Communications’ pending US$92 million acquisition of Sepura has hit challenges, with a possible U.K. government review and changes from investors.

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JVCKENWOOD announced that the NXDN Common Air Interface (CAI) was accepted at the Study Group 5 (SG5) meeting of the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunications Sector (ITU-R) held in November and in report M.2014-3 published in February. This inclusion paves the way for wider global adoption of NXDN because it represents official recognition by an international standards organization that NXDN is an international digital land mobile system.

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Motorola Solutions filed a patent infringement complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Hytera Communications. The ITC complaint asserts that Hytera is unlawfully importing and selling two-way radio equipment and systems and related software and components that infringe Motorola Solutions’ patents.

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Malaysia launched its first mass rapid transit line with the help of Nokia and LG CNS. Nokia supplied a mission-critical communications network to to support railway operations on the new SBK line that will ultimately cover 51 kilometers and serve the 1.2 million residents around Kuala Lumpur.

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