New Mexico deployed its Rave Mobile Safety’s Panic Button in all K-12 schools across the state, joining Oklahoma, Delaware and Louisiana in statewide deployments.

Valid8.com successfully executed an over-the-air (OTA) test of MCX as part of its Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard compliant testing solution for the mission-critical communications industry.

ESChat partnered with EGC International to launch push-to-talk (PTT) service in Colombia. Service will be managed by EGC subsidiaries EICOM, SAS and EGC Colombia SAS.

Senators focused on rural coverage and what the government can do to help get tower sites built on federal land during a Senate Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet hearing on the progress of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Sept. 24.

ASTM International and the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, an official program of Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), announced a new strategic initiative designed to standardize the training and use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and related technology across the public-safety and emergency services sectors around the world.

Airbus highlighted hybrid solutions advantages and features during a demonstration event dedicated to the contributors of a Finnish government-funded research program in Oulu, Finland, between 28 September and 2 October. The aim of the event was to demonstrate the progress made by the twenty Priority research program participants towards the future of critical communications.

Power and telecommunication codependency risks are nothing new. Yet in California, the landscape has evolved so as to make this an acute concern.

Motorola Solutions announced that it has made a new service available to the public safety market. CommandCentral Citizen Input is designed to help 9-1-1 call takers to better engage with citizens in their time of need. Citizen input is a cloud-based service that allows citizens calling or texting 9-1-1 to send video, photographs and recordings of an incident to the public-safety answering point (PSAP), using controlled and permission-based procedures.

The FCC proposed making 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum in the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz band available for 5G deployment across the contiguous United States. The commission also adopted rules for, and proposed additional changes to, the broader 3.3 – 3.55 GHz band.

A Samsung official said that LTE ProSe capabilities — the LTE equivalent of LMR direct mode — is available but still in its early stages.