Mission Critical Partners was awarded a multiyear contract to provide 9-1-1 and next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) subject matter expertise to the National 911 Program, an organization housed within the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s Office of Emergency Medical Services at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a notice that it plans to conduct a nationwide test of the emergency alert system (EAS) Aug. 7 in coordination with the FCC. The test will not include a message on cellphones via wireless emergency alerts.

AT&T reported second-quarter financial results. AT&T's consolidated revenues for the second quarter totaled $45 billion versus $39 billion in the year-ago quarter, up 15.3%, primarily due to the Time Warner acquisition.

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has authorized Verizon, alongside AT&T First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), to offer services to public-safety agencies through the state’s public safety grade wireless data agreement. A Verizon executive said the contract is the first multivendor public-safety wireless data contract.

Digi International’s Digi WR54 wireless router for complex mobile and industrial environments was approved for use on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) communications platform.

Applications and software development firm Alea announced its membership of TCCA. Based in Pordenone, Italy, Alea specializes in the development of smartphone applications for real-time communications.

A National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) official said the federal agency released the final test reports to commercial entities that participated in spectrum sharing testing on a model that would allow commercial and military use in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band.

At the final review of the Celtic-Plus project RelCOvAir – Reliable Industrial Communication Over the Air, the project team, led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), presented a new test system for industrial wireless communications. The developed test system consists of a software-based and a hardware-based test bed solution.

The push by critical infrastructure industries (CII) entities to convince the FCC to rethink allowing unlicensed devices to share the 6 GHz spectrum continued with several CII associations asking the secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) to intervene. In addition, a new report outlines the negative impact of unlicensed devices to a 6 GHz network in the Gulf of Mexico.

Numerous critical infrastructure industries (CII) and business/industry (B/I) groups, suppliers and associations expressed concerns with AT&T’s proposal for a new Category C antenna for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) 3.5 GHz band.

Canada's Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier announced that the government has varied a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The government is calling on the CRTC to refrain from economic regulation of certain VoIP services. Earlier this year, the Governor in Council had referred Telecom