The FCC granted a petition for a stay of the implementation of its new framework for the 4.9 GHz band requested by the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA).

Anterix entered into agreements with Motorola Solutions and Nokia to help facilitate the development of private LTE networks.

The National Institute of Science and Technology’s (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division awarded $8 million to the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab at Indiana University’s (IU) Pervasive Technology Institute to implement a prize competition aimed at developing indoor localization technologies that support first responders in a variety of mission types.

Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced the appointment of 17 members to the commission’s recently created 9-1-1 strike force.

The state of Michigan selected L3Harris Technologies to provide critical communications for more than 100,000 local, state, federal, tribal and private users on the second largest trunked radio system in the world.

Several technology options exist for deploying IoT solutions focused on critical needs. These principally fall into two low-power wide area (LPWA) network classifications: licensed 4G and 5G cellular, and non-cellular LPWA.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at improving the United States’ cybersecurity.

Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown sent a letter to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis asking him to line-item veto several items in the state legislature’s 2021-2022 budget that direct the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) to award a contract to L3Harris Technologies for a new Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) without a competitive procurement process.

Anterix announced its next significant step to facilitate and accelerate the delivery, deployment and application of transformative private broadband for the nation's electric grid. Anterix is joined by 37 technology companies to launch the Anterix Active Ecosystem Program.

The FCC approved a special temporary authority (STA) request from Verizon to allow it to conduct 5G tests using pre-commercial equipment in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum.