Iridium Communications reported financial results for the first quarter of 2020 and updated its full-year 2020 outlook. Net loss was $31.7 million for the first quarter of 2020 compared with a net loss of $18 million for the first quarter of 2019.

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Verizon announced a new strategic partnership with Mutualink, making Mutualink’s interoperability-as-a-service solutions available directly through Verizon. Verizon and Mutualink are helping improve crisis response by enabling interoperable agency communications and information sharing for devices across different networks, ensuring first responders, public-safety agencies and private security personnel can share critical information when they need it most.

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Canadian mobile provider TELUS launched ESChat broadband push-to-talk (PTT) service on its wireless network. The companies completed a commercial contract in May 2019 and have been in soft launch with a number of marquee customers since late 2018.

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The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) announced that Laurie Anderson of the Charlotte County (Florida) Sheriff's Office, Cassie Lowery of Rutherford County (Tennessee) Emergency Communications, Bruce Romero of the Arapahoe County (Colorado) E9-1-1 Emergency Communications Service Authority and Karin Marquez of RapidSOS were elected by the organizations’ membership to serve on its board of directors and help lead the association’s mission to improve 9-1-1 through research, standards development, training, education, outreach and advocacy.

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The FCC entered into a consent decree with Marriott Vacations Worldwide to resolve its investigation into whether Marriott violated the Communications Act of 1934 and the commission’s rules when it acquired wireless radio licenses from various entities as part of its acquisition of ILG prior to receiving approval from the FCC.

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The FCC is seeking comment on the implementation of new data fields for covered 9-1-1 service providers that it will add to the Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) and 9-1-1 Reliability Certification System, respectively, to improve the commission’s ability to assess 9-1-1 reliability.

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) provided the draft Verification of ISSI/CSSI Conformance Test Tool Products: High-Level Process Framework document for a 30-day public comment period. The document is part of the Project 25 (P25) Compliance Assessment Program (CAP).

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The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) released its annual report to Congress. The report discusses the nationwide public-safety broadband network’s buildout, the FirstNet road map, investment strategy and public-safety user examples.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced recent initiatives to defend the country from COVID-19.

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A team led by L3Harris Technologies engineers designed a low-cost, ventilation support system to help patients combatting COVID-19.

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