xG Technology’s Vislink business received a $535,000 order from NEP UK for its high-efficiency video coding (HVEC) 4K-capable HCAM wireless camera systems with focal point camera control. The systems will be used at the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018 and at the Commonwealth Games in Australia in August 2018.

The Dutch National Police awarded Abiom, the exclusive distributor of Sepura products for public safety in the Benelux region, won a recent bid to replace all TETRA C2000 police radios currently in use with the Sepura SRG3900 radio.

Motorola Solutions celebrated the 10th year milestone of its MOTOTRBO digital radio portfolio at the CIMB Classic golf tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where a fleet of digital two-way radios is deployed to coordinate the four-day golf championship 12 – 15 October. The CIMB Classic, celebrating its eighth edition, is the only PGA Tour event staged in Southeast Asia.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced that Stephen Welby will become its executive director and chief operating officer (COO), effective Jan. 2.

From 28 – 30 November PMRExpo will offer numerous talks covering topics such as cybercrime, new professional mobile radio (PMR) applications, broadband services, alarm and warning systems, campus solutions, IT security and improving network stability. Speakers include industry representatives as well as operators and public agencies.

Bittium lowered its financial guidance for 2017 because of a delay in the first phase of product deliveries for the Mexican Mexsat satellite phone system, which will be mainly executed in 2018 because of Mexican governmental customers. Bittium originally expected those product deliveries to be executed during the second half of 2017.

Avaya was awarded a project to deliver next-generation emergency services communications solutions in Turkey. The deal, part of Turkey's NGCC112 emergency number project, will see Avaya equip Turkey’s emergency services with its eCall vehicle accident aid system, as well as enable emergency responders to communicate more effectively at the scene of any incident.

Nokia hired Chris Johnson from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to lead the push into vertical industries. Company veteran Mike Calabrese will oversee the webscale and large enterprise customer segments.

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) plenary meetings in Sapporo, Japan, 11 – 14 September addressed standards in several areas relevant to public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE). The 3GPP plenary meetings consisted of three separate plenary group meetings.

Hytera Mobilfunk in cooperation with its distributor Nexus Technology and Tactical IT deployed a TETRA network for the city guards of the provincial municipality of Puno in Peru.