In comments on the FCC’s decision to allow commercial use in the 4.9 GHz band, public-safety entities continued to oppose the decision and push the FCC to vacate, while other industry organizations showed support for the effort but said strong FCC oversight is needed for the new rules to succeed.

The National Public-Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) submitted a petition for reconsideration of the FCC’s new 4.9 GHz rules.

The FCC officially terminated its proceeding on auctioning the T-band spectrum. The action follows the repeal of the mandate that the FCC auction off the spectrum by 2021.

An outage on a communication provider’s network caused some disruptions to 9-1-1 services in eight Minnesota Counties January 11.

French radio communications specialist ETELM was recognized for its work to help establish a COVID-19 mobile medical facility in Italy. The project, which was a deployment of a mobile laboratory called the Biological Light Field Laboratory for Emergencies (B-LiFE), won at the International Critical Communications Awards 2020 in the category of “Best use of critical communications in public safety.”

A U.K. appeals court set aside freezing orders against Hytera and its U.K. subsidiary that froze the companies’ assets and prevented them from moving them out of the country. In April, the U.K. High Court approved a request from Motorola Solutions for a freezing order that prevented Hytera from moving up to US$345.7 million in assets out of the country.

The CBRS Alliance, an industry organization focused on driving the development, commercialization and adoption of OnGo shared spectrum solutions, announced it is expanding its mission to encompass Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technologies operating in shared spectrum bands around the globe, leveraging its members’ successes in commercializing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band in the United States. To align with this broader objective, the organization is changing its name to the OnGo Alliance.

Airgain acquired privately-held NimbeLink, a leader in cellular industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions and services. The addition of NimbeLink’s embedded modem products and asset tracking solutions is key to Airgain’s ongoing strategy to expand its penetration of the multibillion-dollar industrial IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets.

A recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights found the demand for private LTE market is anticipated to grow at an incremental rate based on increasing adoption of connected devices that require a reliable and secure communications network. Rapid urbanization and industrialization are driving the need for advanced communications technologies that are capable of handling smart logistics and manufacturing.

A group of public-safety, critical infrastructure and industry organizations asked a federal appeals court to remand the FCC’s recent order allowing unlicensed use in the 6 GHz band for stronger safeguards against interference to critical microwave links.