Scott C. Chandler, president of Franklin Court Partners, was elected to Westell Technologies’ board of directors. Chandler will serve as a member of the audit and compensation committees.

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Sammy Loitto was appointed senior vice president, sales for Bittium. Previously he was responsible for sales and business development activities at Bittium.

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The American Petroleum Institute (API) filed ex parte comments urging the FCC to continue with Commercial Band Radio Service (CBRS) rules that allow small tracts for licenses.

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A Florida administrative law judge (ALJ) recommended that the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) dismiss a protest from Harris over the award of a contract for a new statewide Project 25 (P25) network to Motorola Solutions. ALJ J. Bruce Culpepper additionally recommended that the department award the contract to Motorola.

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The Safer Buildings Coalition elected Patrick Lau, Comba Telecom vice president of strategic development, to its board of directors as vice president.

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The FCC granted a limited waiver of its emergency alert system (EAS) and wireless emergency alert (WEA) rules to permit EAS participants and participating commercial mobile service (CMS) providers to participate in a test to be conducted by the Puerto Rico Emergency Management Bureau (PREMB). This test will be a combined live EAS and end-to-end WEA test, scheduled for Sept. 12, with a backup date of Sept. 13.

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The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International received a $30,000 grant from Motorola Solutions Foundation. The grant is administered through APCO’s Commercial Advisory Council (CAC) Scholarship Program, which makes scholarship funds available to public-safety communications professionals who participate in APCO Institute training and attend an APCO International event.

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AT&T plans to introduce mobile 5G in parts of five additional cities — Houston; Jacksonville, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; New Orleans; and San Antonio — this year. Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung are AT&T’s 5G suppliers.

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CentralSquare Technologies — formed by the merger of Superion, TriTech Software Systems and Zuercher Technologies — launched as a provider of public sector software. The completed merger brings together the three companies with the public sector and healthcare business of Aptean.

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Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris called on the FCC, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile to guarantee service to first responders during emergencies and clarify policies regarding unlimited data plans.

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