Two Anterix representatives spoke with officials in the FCC’s Office of Economic and Analytics about “methodologies the FCC might use to address the value of spectrum in the FCC’s inventory and evolution in 900 MHz band technology.”

Members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure told the FCC they are alarmed by its proposal to reallocate more than half of the 5.9 GHz spectrum (Safety Band) to unlicensed operations, such as Wi-Fi. The FCC's proposal undercuts the potential to prevent many of the 37,000 traffic fatalities each year by impeding the development and deployment of safety-critical technologies, a letter said.

The Ad Hoc Refiners Group met with FCC officials to discuss the proposal to realign the 900 MHz band to establish a Long Term Evolution (LTE) operations. The group highlighted challenges in securing narrowband 900 MHz channels in high-density markets.

Australia’s government officials and industry leaders gathered to discuss network resiliency during the country’s severe bushfires, noting that access to power was critical. Most network outages following the bushfires were because of loss of power, not direct bushfire damage to network facilities.

The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) approved a new Release 2 specification defining enhancements to the baseline Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) operational and functional requirements. The specification defines optional features and functionality that can be incorporated at any time, with special focus on supporting specific vertical markets and their deployments.

Audi of America, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and Qualcomm Technologies, announced plans for initial deployments of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications on northern Virginia roadways. Initial deployment is expected to take place on select roadways in Virginia beginning in the third quarter.

Purple Cow Industries, a construction waste management and skip bin provider across the Sydney metropolitan area, selected Vertel’s push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) service to enhance communications across its operations.

Nextel Worldwide was selected as a supplier of communications for Super Bowl LIV Feb. 2 in Miami.

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.

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.