The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) elected four new members to its board of directors.

BAI Communications selected SOLiD to use its GENESIS distributed antenna system (DAS) as part of the project to deliver high-speed mobile connectivity across the London Underground. This selection of SOLiD by BAI facilitates London Mayor Sadiq Kahn’s vision of world-class connectivity across the city.

The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) and the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET), a personnel certification authority for various technical fields, collaborated on a new in-building public-safety communications (IB-PSC) certification program, which is now available.

Honeywell acquired a majority stake in Fiplex Communications, a Miami-based company that develops in-building communications systems, including bi-directional amplifiers (BDAs) that provide continuous and critical in-building radio coverage in challenging environments to improve the safety of first responders and building occupants.

Advanced RF Technologies announced a strategic agreement with Edwards, a division of Carrier Global, to provide Edwards customers with mission-critical, emergency radio communication enhancement systems (ERCES) for first responders.

Public-safety networks such as FirstNet are being rolled out so first responders have reliable, resilient, optimized broadband communications when carrying out their respective missions. Such networks are designed to deliver instantaneous, uninterrupted communications, as well as to give government agencies the ability to collect and analyze streaming information for better response.

The National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) and the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) are partnering on an in-building public-safety communications certification program.

The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) called on the FCC to immediately convene a task force to address interference caused to public-safety radio by the improper use of signal boosters commonly deployed to remediate poor in-building public-safety and commercial wireless coverage.

Senators focused on rural coverage and what the government can do to help get tower sites built on federal land during a Senate Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet hearing on the progress of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Sept. 24.

The FCC has recognized the potential of television broadcasting to evolve and has allowed licensed operators to transition to an all IP-based broadcast technology called Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC 3.0) or NextGen TV. This wireless standard, the result of work that was aligned with Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPPP) and other IP-based communications platforms, is just now being deployed. By the nature of its underlying awareness of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and ability to transport time synchronous data packet payloads, there now exists a new tool that has an ability to impact the world of Position/Navigation/Timing (PNT).