Organizers of the British Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (BAPCO) said the event, held 10 – 11 March, hosted 1,690 public-safety professionals and more than 70 suppliers. More than 1,922 total visitors attended.

Sierra Wireless reported results for its first quarter ended March 31. Revenue for the first quarter of 2020 was $157.6 million compared with $173.8 million in the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 9.3%.

Motorola Solutions was awarded a tender for supplying the Israeli government with a new broadband push-to-talk (PTT) communications solution. The company will supply up to 10,000 devices powered with WAVE, Motorola Solutions’ broadband PTT service, allowing government field personnel to communicate across security, logistics and other operational teams.

Altair acquired the WRAP software business from Swedish company WRAP International. WRAP is a world-leading software technology for spectrum management and radio network planning for civil and defense organizations.

DAMM Cellular Systems hired Alaa Allam as regional sales manager for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Starting in January, Iridium elected to extend what was a limited time commercial offer doubling the amount of data available on Iridium Certus L-band broadband service packages for the maritime industry. The company is also giving away up to 500 minutes of free crew calling for each vessel equipped with Iridium Certus or Iridium OpenPort as a primary service, currently through the end of September.

Motorola Solutions is offering its WAVE push-to-talk (PTT) service free to critical industries in Australia and New Zealand until the end of June.

VIAVI reported results for its third fiscal quarter ended March 28.

Loon announced a global collaboration with AT&T that the company said will allow it to respond more quickly and effectively to disasters worldwide. Loon offers a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space to enhance communications connectivity.

Rugged device maker Bittium and ENENSYS Technologies, a provider of public-safety solutions, announced that evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Solution (eMBMS) with ENENSYS’ middleware, which is intended for public authority LTE networks, can now be deployed in the Bittium Tough Mobile 2 smartphone. With this cooperation, LTE broadcast features are now enabled in the rugged public-safety Bittium Tough Mobile 2.