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ComEd organized Operation Power Play 2017, a statewide drill May 18 and 19 in coordination with Ameren Illinois; the city of Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC); the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC); Peoples Gas; the Illinois Emergency Management Agency; Will, Cook and DuPage County Departments of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the United States Army Reserve; and more than 50 other state, county, municipal, public and private entities.

AT&T completed deployment of its nationwide Long Term Evolution (LTE)-M network ahead of schedule. The network will enable a new generation of internet of things (IoT) devices and applications, the carrier said.

The Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) and The Monitoring Association (TMA) jointly submitted suggested revisions to FCC rules governing access to central station alarm frequencies, as well as related coordination protocols. The revisions and protocols were submitted in response to an FCC effort to enhance access to these designated channels.

Airbus launched the U.S. base and operations of a new commercial drone start-up, named Airbus Aerial.

The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) selected the S.M. Group International (SMi), Télécommunications Grimard and PowerTrunk, part of the Sepura Group, to supply and install a new, state of the art TETRA radio and voice recording system for its subway operations across its network. SMi and Grimard will provide the installation and system integration services, while PowerTrunk will supply the TETRA network infrastructure and radio dispatch solution.

Motorola Solutions provided a system upgrade for the Shanghai aviation hub, one of the world’s top 10 aviation hubs in 2016. The system upgrade included a software maintenance service contract for a major TETRA communications solution.

Hytera Communications said it expects its acquisition of Sepura to close on 24 May. The acquisition had been held up by reviews by several European governments.

The UTC Foundation, the charitable arm of the Utilities Technology Council (UTC), presented its first grant to the Energy Production & Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at UNC Charlotte. The contribution was given at an awards dinner on Wednesday, May 10, during the UTC Telecom & Technology conference in Charlotte.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) warned of a widely reported ransomware attack affecting both private- and public-sector enterprises in multiple countries.