U.K. Home Office and public-safety officials researched the Kodiak push-to-talk (PTT) solution from Motorola Solutions for the country’s public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) network during a trip to the United States last week. The group is considering moving to the Kodiak technology rather than the previously planned Motorola WAVE 7000.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) announced a workshop on rail transport 4 – 5 July in Sophia Antipolis, France.

A report from ABI Research found the total mission-critical communications market for base stations, repeaters, handsets and infrastructure in 2022 will be US$10 billion. The North American market continues to account for more than half of this world market with the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region in second place with a 20 percent market share.

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) criticized the Trump administration’s list of items subject to 25 percent tariffs following the Section 301 investigation into China’s trade practices. The list includes a number of inputs used in the U.S.-based manufacturing of telecom goods.

Representatives from 30 global telecommunications companies will join dozens of observers from U.S. state and federal agencies, as well as international participants, to test public-safety communications and related technologies during the second international Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) Plugtests event set for June 25 – 29 at Disaster City on the Texas A&M University (TAMU) campus in College Station, USA.

A new company, EVERYWHERE Communications, launched to provide satellite and cellular connections for the millions of people and assets that require global connectivity for safety, security and productivity.

Fortinet signed a threat information sharing agreement with INTERPOL to combat global cybercrime and privacy protection.

Everbridge expanded the capabilities of the national alerting system that it is powering for Sweden. Going forward, residents and visitors in Sweden will be able to receive short message service (SMS) notifications on their mobile phones if they reside within an area where sudden events such as fire, extreme weather or a terror attack occur.

Regulatory authorities approved Sweden’s Securitas acquisition of the Kratos Public Safety and Security (KPSS) division from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a top 10 systems integrator in the United States. The purchase price is about 600 million Swedish kroner (US$69 million) on a cash and debt-free basis.

RF Industries announced results for the fiscal second quarter and first six months ended April 30. Second quarter sales were $22.4 million, nearly tripled compared with sales in the same quarter last year.