Westell Technologies’ board of directors selected Timothy Duitsman as the company’s new president and CEO. He succeeds Alfred S. (Stephen) John, who will be leaving the company.

TESSCO Technologies hired Sandip Mukerjee as the company’s president and CEO. Former CEO Murray Wright will retire following a transition period to ensure a smooth succession process. Mukerjee will also replace Wright on the company’s board of directors.

Nokia appointed Gabriela Styf Sjöman as chief strategy officer and member of the group leadership team, effective Dec. 1. Styf Sjöman succeeds Kathrin Buvac, who continues in the role of president of Nokia enterprise and member of the group leadership team.

Fadi Pharaon was appointed senior vice president and head of Middle East and Africa at Ericsson and a member of Ericsson’s executive team, reporting to the CEO. Pharaon currently holds the position as vice president, networks and managed services within Ericsson’s Europe and Latin America.

ALDB, operator of the world’s largest TETRA network in Germany, joined TCCA, the global representative organization for the critical communications ecosystem.

Leonardo’s auto triangulation software has gone live at the U.K.’s Distress and Diversion cell based at NATS, the U.K.’s main air traffic control services provider.

The Chicago Police Department is rolling out a pilot of Samsung’s DeX in Vehicle solution, providing officers the ability to dock their Galaxy smartphones and access policing applications on a dash-mounted display and keyboard.

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau proposed fines and issued a formal industry warning related to devices that apparently caused interference to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) terminal doppler weather radar station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Enforcement Bureau proposed three separate $25,000 fines against wireless internet service providers Boom Solutions, Integra Wireless, and WinPR.

USTelecom said its pilot program to more accurately map broadband coverage pinpointed flaws in the current mapping and found that using state-of-the-art technology and datasets can help precisely identify and geocode every structure in a geographic area that can receive broadband.

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) selected four contractors to help the office in upgrading California’s outdated 9-1-1 system to a next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) platform. The effort to modernize the 9-1-1 system across the state will introduce proven state-of-the-art technology to ensure California is better prepared to assist those in need during emergencies and natural disasters.