HAAS Alert closed $5 million in investment capital. The funding, which will support the expansion of its Safety Cloud product across the country, was led by R^2 and Blu Ventures and was joined by TechNexus, Stacked Capital, UrbanUs, Techstars, Ride Ventures, and Gramercy Fund.

AT&T and Verizon said that Hurricane Ida has impacted their networks in areas of Louisiana.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the establishment of two broadband-focused offices: the Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth (OICG) and the Office of Minority Broadband Initiative (OMBI).

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) announced the programming for the 2021 Wireless Leadership Summit that will be held at the Marriott Austin Downtown, in Austin, Texas, November 2-3.

Mobile Communications America (MCA) acquired Jackson Purchase Two-Way Radio Service and Freedom Towers, a full-service communications provider headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky.

The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) membership approved its 2022 operations plan, which includes the goals of its four committees for the next 12 months.

T-Band has always been somewhat of a complicated spectrum resource in which to conduct frequency coordination. The band was made available about fifty years ago, before propagation prediction and other spectrum management tools were widely available as they are today. Consequently, the FCC adopted license assignment rules based on what they knew back in the early 1970s. Systems were analog, channels were 25 kHz wide, and deploying trunking technology was not yet a routine system decision. Protocols adopted by the FCC may have made sense 5o years ago, but not so much today.

The FCC is seeking comment on appropriate industry stakeholders to form a search committee to select a reimbursement clearinghouse to oversee the reimbursement of relocation expenses for certain secondary, non-federal licensees in the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz band.

The FCC released a public notice seeking comment on using the 5.03 – 5.091 GHz band to support unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations.

Cambium Networks announced it is a founding member of the Future Technologies Venture Innovation Center in Atlanta.