PCTEL opened its wireless product development center in Akron, Ohio. The center is dedicated to the development of devices for the industrial internet of things (IoT) and other enterprise-class applications.

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Airbus touted its work in mission-critical Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards, noting its work with partners within 3GPP on Long Term Evolution (LTE) Release 15 and 16, set to be complete by the end of 2019.

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National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) version 4.1 beta1 is available for public review and comment. NIEM 4.1 will be a minor release that incorporates content updates to domains, including biometrics, emergency management, human services, justice and military operations.

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Public-safety leaders created the FirstNet Association, an organization dedicated to bridging the gap between end users of the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) and those responsible for the system’s buildout, evolution and maintenance.<

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Everbridge Holdings completed the voluntary offer to acquire the entire issued share capital of Unified Messaging Systems. Payment of the offer price is being made to the UMS shareholders who accepted the offer. At the same time, 184.7 million tendered shares are being transferred to Everbridge. As a result, Everbridge now holds 186.4 million shares, representing about 94.2 percent of the total shares in UMS, on a fully diluted basis.

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FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly requested more information from Rhode Island’s governor on the state’s planned efforts to stop 9-1-1 fee diversion practices.

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The FCC launched a new honors engineer program to recruit current students and recent engineering school graduates to the FCC and into the forefront of the technology and communications fields.

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Government agencies will soon be able to deliver emergency alerts to more Canadians during threat-to-life situations with the addition of wireless public alerting (WPA) to Alert Ready, Canada's national public alerting system. Beginning April 6, wireless service providers will distribute emergency alerts received from alerting authorities directly to compatible wireless devices connected to Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.

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The FCC proposed a penalty of $22,000 against Full Spectrum for apparently willfully and repeatedly causing harmful interference to more than 200 Verizon Wireless base stations in San José, California, operating radio transmission equipment without a license on frequencies 785 MHz – 790 MHz, and operating radio frequency equipment without an FCC equipment authorization.

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The network operations center (NOC) for Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications Systems (LA-RICS) opened at the sheriff’s office communication center in east Los Angeles. The location will monitor the more than 60 public-safety broadband network (PSBN) sites.

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