TCCA announced the shortlist for its 2022 International Critical Communications Awards (ICCA). The award winners will be presented 21 June in Barcelona.

CTIA Certification and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA), a working party of ZVEI, announce the signing of a cooperation agreement (COOP) to advance 5G industrial certification requirements. The partners seek to accelerate the certification, adoption and implementation of 5G technology across the industry.

A new white paper from SAFECOM and the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC) found that LTE is unlikely to replace LMR in the near future. Instead, the report said, the two technologies are likely to merge.

Not many people think about 911 until they themselves are involved in an emergency. It’s the number everyone knows but hopes they will never have to dial. And then, when they do have to, the expectation is that help will arrive at the incident location precisely and instantaneously.

Celona selected Keysight Technology’s Keysight Open RAN Architect (KORA) solution portfolio to validate the quality and reliability of 5G private network deployments for enterprises.

NextNav partnered with Vizsafe to add vertical location services to its Geoaware platform.

Anterix launched an integrated platform to accelerate the scale benefits of a “network” of individual private broadband networks.

On May 14, the Verizon Frontline Response Team deployed in support of first responders battling the Blue Lakes Fire, a blaze that has burned more than 2,000 acres in northern Michigan.

L3Harris Technologies partnered with FirstNet, Built with AT&T to connect the FirstNet network with Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) P25 network. The connection between the two networks is made by leveraging L3Harris’ BeOn mobile application.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that transmission performance is consistent across different bands of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum, which is targeted for high-speed, data-rich 5G systems.