The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released an initial determination finding that Hytera Communications infringed four Motorola Solutions patents.

Ericsson established a center of excellence (CoE) and innovation lab for 5G at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Indian industry and academia can leverage the lab.

Frequentis announced it is equipping co-located police and fire control rooms in Norway. Ski, the fourth co-located control center, officially opened in March.

ice group, an international mobile network operator, announced its membership in TCCA, a global organization for critical communications.

Airbus delivered more than 50,000 TETRA pagers to the Hessian, Germany, fire brigades, emergency services and civil protection units.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard for the TETRA Inter-System Interface (ISI) now includes IP connectivity, allowing the process of interconnecting two separate TETRA networks to become faster, easier and more cost effective, TCCA said.

Australia’s Communications Alliance released a new “Mobile Phone Base Station Deployment” draft industry code for public comment. Comments are due July 20.

Aside from an update on staffing and plans for upcoming user pilots, the U.K. Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) received little new information on the Emergency Service Network (ESN) or the details of a budget and timelines report slated to be released by end-July. <

The first versions of the Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) Open Source software development kit (SDK) and sample MCPTT app were released by the Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) project during the second MCPTT Plugtests this week in Texas.

The TCCA outlined the various product-testing processes in an online article. TCCA developed the interoperability (IOP) testing and certification process to enable a trusted, open multivendor market for TETRA equipment.