San Luis Valley 9-1-1 in Colorado selected the Solacom 9-1-1 call-handling solution for next-generation call handling and management. The emergency telephone authority, responsible for 9-1-1 calls from residents in six counties in southwestern Colorado, needs to be able to pinpoint any call.

Airbus, which supplies Mexico’s nationwide mission-critical Tetrapol network Red Nacional de Radiocomunicación de Misión Crítica Tetrapol (IRIS), wants to create the first broadband virtual mobile operator for public safety in Mexico.

Redline Communications partnered with Future Technologies Ventures to offer Future Technologies' military customers Redline's mobile Long Term Evolution (LTE) product line for tactical rapid deployment purposes. Future Technologies also positioned Redline's LTE product across its private network customer base of vertical markets including rail, first responders, military, utility, maritime, and oil and gas.

EchoStar Mobile and Thales are collaborating to jointly develop advanced mobile satellite voice and data services to meet the needs of security forces and first responders dealing with emergency situations in France and throughout Europe.

Hytera delivered a TETRA solution to Ras Al Khair Plant of Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC) in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Following Hytera’s acquisition of the Sepura Group, Qingzhou Chen, Hytera’s founder, chairman and CEO, and senior leadership team travelled to the United Kingdom, Spain and Germany for meetings with Sepura Group leadership and professionals and Hytera’s local teams in Europe.

With FirstNet releasing most of the state plans this week, state officials should take advantage of the full time allowed to review their plans in order to help make the most informed and best decision for their states.

Motorola Solutions and partner mm-lab equipped Bosch’s automotive proving ground in Boxberg, Germany, with the mm-lab Proving Ground Management System (PGMS) and Motorola’s LEX L10 mission-critical Long Term Evolution (LTE) handheld devices.

RF Industries hired Robert D. Dawson as president and CEO. Howard Hill, RFI's interim president and CEO, will remain with the company as a member of its board of directors.

Indiana County, Pennsylvania, selected Federal Engineering to provide a range of public-safety answering point (PSAP) and 9-1-1 consulting services on an ongoing basis.