After serving 13 years as AT&T’s Chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson announced he will retire as CEO but will serve as executive chairman of the board of directors until January 2021 to ensure a smooth leadership transition.

Erillisverkot, the provider of Finland’s planned Virve 2.0 public-safety broadband network, published a summary of the responses to its request for information (RFI) on Virve 2.0 mission-critical services it released in November. The primary goal was to get a clear picture of the maturity and interoperability of solutions to guide in shaping the related procurement strategy.

Union Pacific Railroad deployed RADWIN's portfolio of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions to monitor and manage hundreds of remote railyards located west of the Mississippi River in the central and western U.S. by implementing high-throughput video surveillance networks and connecting remote railyard buildings.

TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) confirmed Luz Fernández del Rosal of Germany’s Federal Agency for Public Safety Digital Radio (BDBOS) as the new vice chair. Del Rosal takes over the role from Emmanuelle Villebrun of the French Ministry of the Interior and will work with CCBG Chair Tero Pesonen.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded a multiyear task order worth a total of $1.77 million for broadband push-to-talk (PTT) service to ESChat.

As expected, the FCC adopted rules that make 1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band available for unlicensed use. These new rules will usher in Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi, and play a role in the growth of the internet of things (IoT), the FCC said.

AT&T announced the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) network is supporting more than 1.3 million FirstNet connections across more than 12,000 agencies in service. Those numbers are up since February, when AT&T said it had more than 11,000 public-safety agencies and organizations subscribing to FirstNet, accounting for more than 1.2 million connections nationwide.

The FCC denied a request from Los Angeles, Santa Clara County in California, Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District and New York City for a 60-day extension of the deadlines to comment in the net neutrality proceedings. The original deadlines in the proceedings were March 30 for comments and April 29 for reply comments.

Rohill, PT Len Industri and PT Simoco Indonesia signed a cooperation agreement for local production of mission-critical communications systems in Indonesia. By sharing knowledge and resources, setting up a local production unit and a joint market approach, the parties aim to provide customers with a secure, cost-effective and future-proof solution.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that a report and order to reconfigure the 900 MHz band for the deployment of broadband services and technologies is on the commission’s May meeting agenda.