The Police Force in Berlin awarded a 10-year service contract for the 20,000 deployed police radios at the German federal state of Berlin to Motorola Solutions.

Comtech Solacom Technologies will provide call-handling systems and solutions to Telstra as the initial answer point for the entire population of Australia, for efficient management of emergency calls from across the country. Telstra, the Australian telecommunications provider responsible for the country’s emergency call handling services, recently opened a new 24-hour Triple Zero (0-0-0) contact center in Adelaide.

Nextivity a supplier of mobile signal boosters, collaborated with Spry Fox Networks, a supplier of in-building mobile signal solutions, to facilitate uninterrupted 4G coverage for public and private sector organizations across the United Kingdom.

René Schenk was appointed general manager at PrioCom, taking over this position from Angelo Bul. Bul will join the management board of Mission Critical Solutions, where he will be responsible for the commerce.

Sepura and Dutch partner Abiom won multiple agreements to refresh the nationwide deployment of TETRA mobile and portable radios used by the Dutch Police, and the companies have been awarded all the recent tenders for the provision of critical communications solutions.

Nokia said it has deployed private wireless networks for more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies.

The European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) and TCCA signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enable information sharing around the ongoing development of critical mobile broadband.

Later this month, a crisis management demonstration staged by the DRIVER+ project will be held in Poland, with additional remote input and participation from the Netherlands. This final demonstration event represents the culmination of several years of trials and best practice development by different members of the pan-European EU-funded project.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee Smart Card Platform released three technical specifications to launch a new security platform called Smart Secure Platform (SSP).

The U.S. Department of Commerce extended for 90 days the temporary general license (TGL) authorizing specific, limited engagements in transactions involving the export, reexport, and transfer of items to Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates that are subject to the entity list.