Everbridge Holdings completed the voluntary offer to acquire the entire issued share capital of Unified Messaging Systems. Payment of the offer price is being made to the UMS shareholders who accepted the offer. At the same time, 184.7 million tendered shares are being transferred to Everbridge. As a result, Everbridge now holds 186.4 million shares, representing about 94.2 percent of the total shares in UMS, on a fully diluted basis.

Cobham Wireless delivered a critical communications system on Beijing’s New Airport metro line.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released a new specification that defines the requirements and architecture of pan-European mobile emergency applications (PEMEA). The new specification enables emergency apps interoperability within Europe and beyond.

Sepura partners Zenon Digital Radio and Adesal Telecom provided the Onda City Council in Spain with new TETRA digital radios for its police force.

Mobile World Congress (MWC) organizers use a Tait Communications Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) network to keep its workforce connected and ensure the event runs smoothly and safely.

Tait Communications and Transport for London (TfL) signed a contract for the replacement of London’s bus radio system with a new Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) system. The agreement will see Tait manufacture and replace both the communications infrastructure providing coverage across Greater London and the terminal equipment on London’s fleet of almost 10,000 buses.

Harris was selected as the prime systems integrator to modernize and upgrade an Asian nation’s military communications network, extending the company’s role as the country’s incumbent radio provider.

NetMotion said its software has been deployed by more than 50 percent of the U.K.’s police forces based on the number of sworn officers. These forces are using NetMotion Software’s solutions to solve mobile connectivity, security and performance challenges.

The U.K. Home Office released a tender to test coverage of the nationwide Emergency Services Network (ESN), which will be built on EE’s commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The coverage assurance solution will include application and server services, data collection and access services, development services, training and support services, and additional optional and associated services, the tender said.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) developed a solution to locate VoIP emergency callers in response to the Universal Service Directive 2002/22/EC. The solution is backward compatible with current emergency service center technology.