Huawei partnered with IHS to develop a white paper titled “LTE in Public Safety.” The white paper outlines customer challenges in the public-safety sector and private Long Term Evolution (LTE) network development trends, as well as recommendations for the deployment of LTE-based public-safety networks.

ABI Research predicts annual Bluetooth device shipments to reach 5 billion by 2021. Though smartphones will still account for 43 percent of Bluetooth device shipments, Bluetooth Smart, also known as Bluetooth Low Energy, is exhibiting the strongest growth.

Current Analysis identified Nokia as the No.1 vendor for the delivery of technologies “beyond 4G” in a study compiled of 100 service provider executives around the globe. The results cited public safety as a key 4G application, with Nokia also seen globally as the leading vendor of 4G-based public-safety technology.

Even as 5G development continues, Long Term Evolution (LTE) will not fall by the wayside, 5G Americas President Chris Pearson said during a webinar about LTE and the road to 5G.

ABI Research forecasted that the evolution to Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based public safety from narrowband systems will grow at double-digit rates during the next five years with public-safety platforms doubling their distributed antenna system (DAS) spend by 2021.

Global imports of information and communications technology (ICT) goods increased by only 1 percent in 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, the lowest rate of growth compared with the preceding five years, newly released United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) data show.

Improvements for portable LMR accessories include increasingly longer battery life, faster charging batteries and better sound in speaker microphones. These improvements and increased demand have led to a market estimated to be worth $1.3 billion in 2014 and is forecast at a 2.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $1.5 billion in 2019.

A report from Frost & Sullivan found that the Asia-Pacific market for industrial control systems (ICS) security reached revenues of US$162.9 million in 2014. The report, titled “Asia-Pacific Industrial Control Systems Security Market”, estimated that the market will reach revenues of US$1.8 billion by 2019.

A new survey of states said that enacted state budgets for fiscal 2016 represent a sixth consecutive year of spending and revenue growth.

In a recently published market report, “Critical Communications in Oil & Gas – 2015,” IHS said the global market for critical communications technologies in the oil and gas industry will reach more than $1 billion by 2019. IHS defines critical communications as an integration of LMR terminals, infrastructure, accessories, command-and-control room technologies and services, and broadband Long Term Evolution (LTE) hardware and devices.