Federated Wireless completed the rollout of what it called the world’s first in-production environmental sensing capability (ESC) network. Federated Wireless said the network will enable initial commercial deployment of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) services across the United States.

An FCC report found that three key factors were the predominant causes of the unacceptably slow restoration of wireless service in the Florida Panhandle following Hurricane Michael in 2018.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) finalized its testing stage of five Spectrum Access System (SAS) vendors proposing to operate in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum at 3.5 GHz. The SAS manages parameters upon which CBRS systems will rely.

Globalstar entered a long-term strategic relationship with Seattle-based Recon Powerline allowing the company to use Globalstar's satellite and multiradio modems to help address the growing issue of wildfire risk management.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) launched a new Industry Specification Group on a European Common Information Sharing Environment Service and Data Model (ISG CDM). The ETSI group will define technical standards to allow data exchange among different maritime legacy systems in a cooperative network.

BearCom Group acquired three additional mobile communications dealers around the country. Terms of the three transactions were not announced.

ChannelPorts, the only private customs clearance agent in the United Kingdom, adopted the Icom Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio system.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) plans to test whether a private Long Term Evolution (LTE) network can operate in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band to provide communications for applications such as wildfire risk mitigation.

Motorola Solutions executives expect recent acquisitions to give it a competitive edge and contribute to growth this year.

Five solutions will be assessed in an exaggerated flooding scenario in The Hague 22 – 23 May as part of a two-day tabletop trial under the Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (DRIVER+) project. With the participation of practitioners from the police, fire service, medical services, municipality, military, the water board and electricity company, and public transport, as well as international organizations such as EUROPOL, EUROJUST and the International Court of Justice, the event will assess crisis management solutions in Europe.