The U.K. Home Office released an RF susceptibility test requirement that applies to electrical and electronic equipment where immunity to RF interference is of principal importance. The requirement addresses the higher end of the frequency spectrum, where many transceiver-based devices operate, and addresses the high probability of a number of these devices being active in close proximity inside the same vehicle.

Mobile Tornado, a provider of end-to-end push-to-talk (PTT) solutions over IP networks, and Partner Group, a cellular provider in Israel, signed an agreement under which Mobile Tornado will provide its PTT over cellular (PoC) solutions to Partner customers in Israel.

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) formed the Private Wireless Education Council (PWEC). The group’s objective is to nurture greater access to training programs in place and offer additional courses such as licensing and frequency coordination, system planning, spectrum acquisition, safety requirements and RF interference mitigation to expand its members’ knowledge base.

The FCC launched a new honors engineer program to recruit current students and recent engineering school graduates to the FCC and into the forefront of the technology and communications fields.

Government agencies will soon be able to deliver emergency alerts to more Canadians during threat-to-life situations with the addition of wireless public alerting (WPA) to Alert Ready, Canada's national public alerting system. Beginning April 6, wireless service providers will distribute emergency alerts received from alerting authorities directly to compatible wireless devices connected to Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.

The FCC provided guidance to commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers on filing certifications of compliance with the three-year E9-1-1 location accuracy benchmark as required by the commission’s rules. The three-year benchmark requires CMRS providers to provide, as of April 3, dispatchable location or X/Y location (latitude and longitude) within 50 meters for 50 percent of all wireless 9-1-1 calls.

The Radio Club of America (RCA) announced its latest named endowment fund, dedicated to support RCA operations. The Howard and Micheline Rosen Fund is funded by long-time members, Howard (VE2AED) and Micheline (KM6FOH) Rosen.

The FCC proposed a penalty of $22,000 against Full Spectrum for apparently willfully and repeatedly causing harmful interference to more than 200 Verizon Wireless base stations in San José, California, operating radio transmission equipment without a license on frequencies 785 MHz – 790 MHz, and operating radio frequency equipment without an FCC equipment authorization.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will open a new application period for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) providers to provide Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) services.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that as of April 6, all wireless service providers must distribute wireless public emergency alert messages on their Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.