The first quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Plenary e-meetings of 2021 recently concluded, with a focus on the upcoming June deadline for stage 2 (architecture) work. There were major discussions on the use of the 5G New Radio (NR) sidelink interface to support both user equipment (UE) to network (U2N) relay and UE to UE (U2U) relay.

Malheur County, Oregon, contracted Federal Engineering to provide public-safety consulting services.

AT&T said that the FirstNet network now has more than 2.2 million connections and more than 16,000 subscriber public-safety agencies and organizations.

Nokia today announced it is partnering with Claro Chile to equip the new Gold Fields Salares Norte mine with a high-performance private wireless network.

The co-chairs of the Congressional Fire Services and Law Enforcement Caucuses sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy supporting the Next-Generation 9-1-1 Act of 2021.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) announced that its Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) Plugtests event will take place from 14 to 18 June. More than 20 vendors and more than 80 participants will take part in the event.

The members of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) elected Charles Cullen and Leah Hornacek to serve on its board of directors and help lead the association’s mission to improve 9-1-1 through research, standards development, training, education, outreach and advocacy.

Axon and RapidSOS partnered to provide emergency first responders and 9-1-1 telecommunicators access to critical emergency incident information from Axon devices being used by law enforcement officers.

The FCC approved a third notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on ways to improve 9-1-1 reliability.

The FCC approved an order that completes its 800 MHz rebanding program at its April 22 meeting.

Trimble supplied its Virtual Reference Station (VRS) software to establish a national GPS infrastructure network in the south of Poland. The VRS network provides a geospatial infrastructure for surveying, engineering, and geographic information system (GIS) professionals. The network is the first of its kind in Poland and supplies