Motorola Solutions won four awards at Good Design Australia competition. The company earned the awards for its next generation of mission critical solutions in video and voice communications.

Ericsson has agreed to acquire Cradlepoint, a provider of wireless edge WAN 4G and 5G enterprise solutions. The investment is key to Ericsson’s ongoing strategy of capturing market share in the rapidly expanding 5G enterprise space.

As part of the development work of the Virve authority network, Erillisverkot Group has published a request for information (RFI) on devices. The request identifies the types of devices that users want or expect to use and the type of devices that manufacturers intend to provide for future broadband service.

The U.K. Home Office said that Airwave network likely will not be turned off until at least the beginning of 2024 due to delays with the Emergency Services Network (ESN), which is intended to replace the Airwave network for the country’s emergency services.

Sonim Technologies partnered with Push to Talk International (PTTI), a supplier of push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PTToC) services in the UK and Ireland.

In-person Comms Connect events have been canceled for the rest of the year because of ongoing restrictions in Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, Westwick-Farrow Media is hosting a virtual conference series.

An inquiry on the 2019-2020 bushfire season in New South Wales recommended that Australia’s government allocate 10 + 10 megahertz of dedicated spectrum for public-safety mobile broadband (PSMB) at no cost to the states or territories.

PowerTrunk, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Teltronic, deployed a TETRA critical communications solution to the island of Bermuda to support all public-safety organizations on the island. Working with delivery partner Electronic Communications and in close cooperation with manufacturing partners Sepura and Teltronic, PowerTrunk deployed the solution early in 2020. Police, fire and ambulance services will all be connected to the new network, as well as other emergency responders, including the Royal Regiment.

This year’s PMRExpo will be a digital event. Organizer EW Medien und Kongresse and sponsor PMeV – Network for Secure Communications determined that infection rates from the COVID-19 pandemic do not currently allow a physical event with almost 5,000 participants, especially considering the industry represented by the PMRExpo is about safety and protecting the public.

TCCA has launched registration for Critical Communications Week (CCWeek), its new free-to-attend event aimed at bringing the global sector together to network and learn within a virtual space.