Sepura partner Consort Digital deployed a complete communications solution to the island of Mauritius, providing voice and data communications via Sepura TETRA radios to the new Mauritius Metro Express.

SF Airlines, which operates China’s largest cargo fleet, selected Thales and ACSS, an L3Harris Technologies and Thales joint venture, as the exclusive avionics suppliers to retrofit its fleet with Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) Out-compliant airborne equipment. This selection is an active response to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) promotion of ADS-B technology.

Thirty-one senators sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the five commissioners, urging the FCC to reconsider its April order allowing Ligado to deploy a terrestrial nationwide network, citing a lack of protection for potential GPS interference.

Siemens Mobility entered into an exclusive partnership with Ondas Networks, a developer of private licensed wireless data networks for mission-critical industrial markets, to bring a Siemens-branded portfolio of wireless radio communications systems to the North American rail market.

Anterix reached an agreement with Evergy to exchange frequencies in Evergy's Kansas and Missouri territories, pursuant to the FCC’s 900 MHz order allowing broadband services in the band for the first time.

The FCC moved forward with sweeping changes in the 900 MHz band, making 6 megahertz of low-band spectrum available for the development of critical wireless broadband technologies and services through a process of realigning the band by moving incumbent narrowband users to different 900 MHz spectrum.

Puloli will provide access to the Qualcomm Technologies’ internet of things (IoT) platform over the Puloli private IoT network using the upper 700 MHz A block band. Puloli offers a private narrowband (NB) IoT network-as-a-service (NaaS) model to offer 5G/LTE networks optimized to meet its critical infrastructure industries (CII) customers’ needs.

There are initiatives in 15 countries for enterprises to deploy private networks, said global technology market advisory firm ABI Research. This includes both arrangements for enterprises to acquire spectrum directly from the regulator, as well as spectrum assets held by mobile network operators, that focus entirely on providing private cellular networks for enterprises.

Anterix entered into a consulting agreement with Rachelle B. Chong under which Chong will serve as a senior advisor to the company’s management team and help develop and support the company’s state and federal regulatory initiatives aimed at promoting the national deployment of 900 MHz broadband licenses.

The Utilities Technology Council (UTC) announced that it will hold UTC Telecom & Technology 2020 as a virtual conference and expo Aug. 31 – Sept. 4.