FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shared with his colleagues a draft proposal that would take decisive steps toward making the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz band available for commercial use throughout the contiguous U.S. This item will be on the agenda of the FCC’s September 30 open meeting and, if adopted, would position this 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum for commercial 5G use.

A variety of public-safety and industry entities argued that an auction of the T-band spectrum will not be successful and finding spectrum to relocate incumbents will be costly and difficult in comments to the FCC.

First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) Board Chair Tip Osterthaler named Chief Richard Carrizzo vice chair of the board, effective immediately.

The FCC released a public notice detailing the results of and next steps related to the recently concluded auction of 70 megahertz of priority access licenses (PALs) in the 3.55 – 3.65 MHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. Verizon Wireless Network Procurement led all bidders with total winning bids of $1.89 billion, while Wetterhorn Wireless won the most PALs with 5,492.

The Benelux, consisting of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, features a lively scene for the establishment of private LTE networks and critical mobile networks. To a large extent this is due to spectrum availability for all sorts of private networks, or non-public networks (NPN).

Motorola Solutions acquired Callyo, a cloud-based mobile applications provider for law enforcement. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

A new requirement that nationwide wireless providers must deploy Z-axis technology nationwide by April 2025 while giving non-nationwide wireless providers an additional year to do so within their service areas will go into effect Sept. 28.

Former Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate encouraged the use of mesh networking to help empower volunteers during natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires.

In a letter filed today, the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) urgently requested that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) address numerous instances of harmful interference from newly authorized digital television (DTV) stations to established private LMR (PLMR) systems.

An ex parte filing from a coalition of public-safety and critical infrastructure entities urged the FCC to ensure that a multistakeholder group for the 6 GHz spectrum addresses several keys issues surrounding unlicensed use of the band.