Rohill and local Rohill partners Maxto and IP Connect completed the TETRA communications network migration to Rohill TetraNode in Warsaw, Szczecin and Krakow, Poland. The TetraNode system has been fully operational for eight months and was formally accepted by the customer after an extensive period of testing.

Rohill finalized its latest Interoperability (IOP) test of Rohill’s TetraNode infrastructure with Motorola terminals. The test was completed within two weeks and performed at the Rohill headquarters in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands.

Hytera Mobilfunk and its Bulgarian partner Sectron will supply the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior with 4,400 TETRA radios following a Bulgarian Ministry of Interior radio tender. The Bulgarian border police will use the TETRA radios.

The U.K. Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP), which is rolling out the U.K. Emergency Services Network (ESN), announced an open early engagement for device-to-device (D2D) communications for the public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.

Hytera announced it will deliver a nationwide TETRA system to the Ministry of Interior of Angola. This turnkey project includes TETRA infrastructure, Long Term Evolution (LTE)-TETRA multimode radios and TETRA radios, and convergent dispatching systems. The contract value is around US$31 million.

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital led $8 million in series D financing to Nok Nok Labs (NNL), an authentication provider and a founding member of the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance. All existing NNL investors, including DCM Ventures, DDS, DOCOMO Innovations, Korea Information Certificate Authority, Lenovo Group and ONSET Ventures, participated in the financing.

Teltronic, a subsidiary of Hytera Communications, was awarded a public tender by Metro Madrid to supply further TETRA onboard radio equipment for Madrid Metro, Spain, building on a relationship that began in 2003.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in coming days plans to release a report summarizing results from the first mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT) Plugtests event held June 19 – 23. The report will follow preliminary data from the interoperability test sessions for mission-critical Long Term Evolution (LTE) equipment.

FreshRF joined the Tait Communications Technology Program as a registered partner.

The Digital Private Mobile Radio (dPMR) Association said it has become aware of several two-way radio equipment manufacturers who have been using the dPMR trademark and logo with their products without authorization and passing the products off as compliant with European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) conformance and interoperability standards.