Iridium Communications and OneWeb announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering. This combined service would make it easier for their mutual partners to offer bundling and co-marketing opportunities for the Iridium Certus L-band services and OneWeb’s Ku-band service.

Ericsson said its SEK 500 million Swedish krona (US$51.7 million) transformation of the company’s existing factory in Nanjing, China, concluded. The resulting automated factory stands among the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the industry, the company said.

Intertek, a total quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, was approved by AT&T as a preferred testing and certification laboratory for the AT&T IoT Accelerator Program. Intertek is the first U.S. lab approved as part of this program, which offers pre-negotiated pricing for PCS Type Certification Review Board (PTCRB) and AT&T network certification testing to device makers that want to launch internet of things (IoT) devices on the AT&T network.

Barrett Communications’ high-power high-frequency (HF) systems are upgrading communications at Peru’s Jorge Chavez International Airport.

Iridium Communications was awarded a $738.5 million, seven-year, fixed-price contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSpC) to provide unlimited satellite services from its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

U.K. mobile carrier O2 will provide connectivity for a new “smart ambulance” at Millbrook Proving Ground this month, as part of a trial to benefit patient diagnosis, transport and treatment.

L3Harris Technologies completed the previously announced sale of the Harris Night Vision business to Elbit Systems of America for $350 million in cash.

Altice Labs 11 September held a simulation at its facilities in Aveiro, Portugal, to test the use of 5G in emergency situations using an experimental network installed in collaboration with Ericsson.

Wabtec is implementing Septentrio GPS receivers in its latest GoLINC platform as part of its positive train control (PTC) solution for freight railroads in the United States.

HAAS Alert, a Chicago-based startup that alerts drivers of emergency vehicles, completed the first pilot of fleet cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) tests on Sprint’s 5G network in Chicago. The tests by the fleet collision prevention company achieved a 40 percent faster transmission time for alerts because of increased speeds and lower latency, with a decrease in variance of 72 percent on Sprint’s 5G network compared with Long Term Evolution (LTE), the companies said.