Hytera Mobilfunk made telent its first bronze partner, enabling telent to take its first step in the Hytera Mobilfunk Partner Enabling Program (PEP).

A new work item on interworking with legacy LMR was approved at the June Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) plenary meeting for Release 16. While Release 16 work is not expected to be frozen until the end of 2019, completion of the interworking effort is targeted for December 2018.

The largest power company of Mexico is using a digital communications network from Huawei as the nervous system for its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) platform.

Public safety came out in strong support of the 4.9 GHz band, again suggesting critical-infrastructure industries (CII) be given access to the band but strongly opposing further unlicensed or licensed access. Only a few entities filed comments requesting the band be opened to commercial services.

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.

KT, a South Korean telecommunications operator, unveiled a next-generation platform for disaster and safety management. The SYSHIP platform operates a special aircraft and a mobile communication center to remotely control drones and robots that carry out search-and-rescue operations for disaster survivors.

The Wi-Fi Alliance introduced Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA3, the next generation of Wi-Fi security, bringing new capabilities to enhance Wi-Fi protections in personal and enterprise networks.

ATIS and the CBRS Alliance announced a collaboration to enable Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum to be commercially deployed. The work took place in ATIS' International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) Oversight Council (IOC) and has resulted in a solution to support the use of CBRS spectrum to aid in providing mobile connectivity service in locations such as stadiums, apartment buildings, malls and other large facilities — as well as for other uses as they evolve.

AT&T announced it will launch narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) to meet the needs of business customers for a wide range of IoT solutions. AT&T plans to launch NB-IoT in the U.S. early next year, followed by Mexico by the end of 2019.

Telit announced two of its modules are available for public safety to bring internet of things (IoT) applications to market.