A U.S. district judge denied a Hytera Communications motion to dismiss a copyright infringement claim filed against it by Motorola Solutions in an ongoing legal dispute.

PDT, an Astronics company, dedicated a new 167,000-square-foot manufacturing facility co-located with a sister Astronics subsidiary about 30 minutes from Chicago and PDT's design center. The factory expands in-house manufacturing, assembly, certification and test capabilities for complex electromechanical devices in highly regulated industries.

The FCC denied an application for review filed by Clifford E. Bade challenging the denial of identical requests for extension of time to meet the construction requirements for five Part 22 geographic area paging licenses.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed settlement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which if approved by the court, would resolve the department’s concerns about the purchase by of Sprint by T-Mobile USA.

A public-safety association official highlighted the importance of the 6 GHz and T-band spectrum for public-safety users during a House hearing held by the Commerce Committee’s communications and technology subcommittee that largely focused on U.S. 5G spectrum.

Nokia reported second-quarter financial results, with net sales in the quarter of €5.7 billion (US$6.4 billion) compared with €5.3 billion (US$5.9 billion) in the second quarter of 2018. On a constant currency basis, net sales increased 5%.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a notice that it plans to conduct a nationwide test of the emergency alert system (EAS) Aug. 7 in coordination with the FCC. The test will not include a message on cellphones via wireless emergency alerts.

AT&T reported second-quarter financial results. AT&T's consolidated revenues for the second quarter totaled $45 billion versus $39 billion in the year-ago quarter, up 15.3%, primarily due to the Time Warner acquisition.

At the final review of the Celtic-Plus project RelCOvAir – Reliable Industrial Communication Over the Air, the project team, led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), presented a new test system for industrial wireless communications. The developed test system consists of a software-based and a hardware-based test bed solution.

The push by critical infrastructure industries (CII) entities to convince the FCC to rethink allowing unlicensed devices to share the 6 GHz spectrum continued with several CII associations asking the secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) to intervene. In addition, a new report outlines the negative impact of unlicensed devices to a 6 GHz network in the Gulf of Mexico.