Comments regarding the FCC’s fifth report and order and fifth further notice of proposed rulemaking adopting rules for transmitting Z-axis location information with indoor wireless 9-1-1 calls and seeking comment on narrowing the Z-axis location accuracy metric are due Feb. 18.

SFC Energy and adKor entered into an equipment sales agreement with Ballard Power Systems for the provision of an initial 500 fuel cell stacks to be integrated into Jupiter backup power systems for deployment at radio tower sites in Germany through the end of 2021.

Hytera delivered its Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) technology for smooth and efficient radio communications for the 61st edition of Hong Kong Open, held at Hong Kong Golf Club 9 – 12 January.

E Comm International is celebrating 25 years in business by releasing a new e-book each month during 2020 on marketing, advertising and sales topics. The first e-book in the series is “25 Best Practices for Marketing in the Wireless Industry.”

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) published “Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Updating Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Outage Contact Information (ATIS-0100068).” The document provides information on how public-safety answering point (PSAP) contact information is to be collected and documented.

The latest Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) plenary standards meetings set final work items to be standardized in Release 17 (R17), including several public-safety features. LMR to Long Term Evolution (LTE) interworking made big strides as well.

More than 30% of cell sites were down Jan. 8 in Puerto Rico following a 6.4 earthquake Jan. 7. By Jan. 9, the number of cell sites down had improved to 19.5%, according to data from the FCC.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai presented his colleagues with final rules to launch a $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The rules, which will be voted on by the commission at its Jan. 30 open meeting, would establish a two-phased process to provide funding for the deployment of high-speed broadband in areas of the United States where there is not fixed broadband service that meets the FCC’s minimum speed standard 25/3 Megabits per second (Mbps).

Alaska announced two initiatives, wireless 9-1-1 and consolidation of emergency communication services (ECC), to improve law enforcement services to all Alaskans.

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) hired Kyle Entz as executive director, strategic initiatives. Entz will contribute to member advocacy initiatives, assist members who require spectrum access guidance, and manage 900 MHz incumbent transition requirements pursuant to EWA’s services agreement with Anterix.