TomTom and Verizon announced a 5G innovation project focused on making intersections safer for emergency vehicles.

The Mauritius Metro Express, the first and only mass transit system for the island of Mauritius, began inaugural service. The system’s radio communications infrastructure includes outdoor TETRA base stations and control room applications from Damm Cellular Systems.

The FCC is seeking comment on a request by Iridium Communications for waiver of several Part 80 rules to permit vessels to select Iridium for the provision of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) mobile satellite service.

Apple executives outlined two new 9-1-1-related features introduced in iOS 13 in an FCC filing. The features include location-based routing (LBR) of 9-1-1 calls and text to 9-1-1.

Motorola Solutions announced the 2019 Motorola Solutions Education Video Contest winners. The contest invited K-12 public, private or charter schools or school districts based in the U.S. to submit videos honoring favorite school heroes, highlighting outstanding achievements or demonstrating their efforts to ensure positive learning environments.

York Regional Police (YRP) in Canada purchased 270 Axon Fleet in-car video systems and 1,800 licenses to its digital evidence management solution. This order was received in the third quarter and will begin shipping in phased deployments in the fourth quarter.

IXP entered into a consulting contract with York County, Pennsylvania, to reorganize and improve the training, management structure and operational processes of the county’s 9-1-1 center.

Polar Power received a $1.3 million purchase order for backup generators from a rural telecom provider engaged in building high-speed rural wireless broadband networks in 14 states to enhance public safety. Telecom companies and the federal government are jointly building the rural networks throughout the nation to provide enhanced high-speed communications across the United States.

Motorola Solutions made a strategic investment in GreenKey Technologies (GK), a provider of natural language processing for domain-specific workflows. Motorola Solutions is beginning to deploy its automated speech recognition technology across its command center suite.

Ericsson completed the acquisition of the antenna and filter division of Kathrein. Ericsson announced the purchase in February.