Sierra Wireless announced its AirLink MG90 high-performance multinetwork vehicle router is certified and approved for use on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) nationwide public-safety broadband network. The product is the first in-vehicle router to achieve the FirstNet Ready designation.

Motorola Solutions and Panasonic are two of the companies participating in the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) dealer program announced this week.

Aside from an update on staffing and plans for upcoming user pilots, the U.K. Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) received little new information on the Emergency Service Network (ESN) or the details of a budget and timelines report slated to be released by end-July. <

The Commerce Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated an audit of the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet’s) deployment of the public-safety core in May.

The Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications Systems (LA-RICS) finalized its agreement with AT&T — first announced last year — whereby AT&T will pay at least $14.5 million for the region’s public-safety broadband network.

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.

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau settled an investigation into AT&T Mobility’s 9-1-1 outages of March and May 2017 with a $5.25 million fine and other conditions. AT&T must implement proactive system changes to reduce the likelihood and impact of future 9-1-1 outages, improve processes for notifying 9-1-1 call centers of any future outages, ensure reliable 9-1-1 call completion, and regularly file compliance reports with the FCC.

The TCCA outlined the various product-testing processes in an online article. TCCA developed the interoperability (IOP) testing and certification process to enable a trusted, open multivendor market for TETRA equipment.

Iridium Communications announced that COMSAT, Gilat Telecom, Globecomm, MetOcean Telematics, NSSLGlobal, Trace Systems and Wireless Innovation, were added as Iridium Certus service providers for land-mobile applications. The addition of these seven companies brings the total number of service providers for land-mobile applications to 20

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.