The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced a review of parts of an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) initial determination, which found Hytera Communications infringed claims of four Motorola Solutions patents. The commission will also review a pair of orders ALJ Mary Joan McNamara released during the investigation.

Airbus kicked off the Critical App Challenge for the Middle East to help regional developers and start-ups to create the best applications for public-safety users. The aim is to establish new digital solutions to help police, firefighters and other professionals improve their work.

On 2 September, torrential rain caused mountain flooding and a massive landslide swept through the town of Mengdong in Yunnan province in southwestern China. Local transportation, electricity and communications network were disrupted.

The unsealed version of a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge’s initial determination in Motorola Solutions’ patent infringement case against Hytera offers more insight into the judge’s decision and the alleged theft of Motorola trade secrets by Hytera employees.

Airbus and STC Specialized partnered to make the Hajj 2018 safer. Reliable secure communications infrastructure contributed to the safety of more than 2 million pilgrims at the holy sites in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, the companies said.

Globalstar announced the promotions of Dave Kagan to the position of CEO and Jay Monroe to executive chairman of the board of directors.

Market research firm IHS Markit predicted that revenues generated by the mission-critical Long Term Evolution (LTE) market are set to increase across all major sectors to 2021. Leading the way is the utilities market, with 120 percent growth, followed by public safety, where revenues are set to double.

Damm Cellular Systems was awarded the contract to provide a TETRA radio system for mission-critical secure communications at Kannur International Airport in Kannur, India. All airport operations and maintenance users will use the system to secure passengers’ safety with a reliable voice and data communications system for airport operations.

Icom’s new push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) radio system allows users to communicate with a two-way radio system over a Long Term Evolution (LTE) closed network.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) announced a third Plugtests event to test interoperability among mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) technology at the end of the year. The event — dubbed MCX Plugtests 3 to incorporate MCPTT, mission-critical (MCData) and mission-critical video (MCVideo) — will be the first remote testing session following two in-person events.