A variety of industry associations, service providers and user agencies responded to an FCC request for comments on the use of location-based routing for public-safety answering points (PSAPs). Many commenters focused on whether or not the FCC should require providers to provide location-based routing.

The Fairfield Police Department in Fairfield, Ohio, selected a full CentralSquare Public Safety Suite Pro software system from CentralSquare Technologies featuring 911, CAD, RMS, Mobile and Jail as their preferred and trusted public safety suite. Fairfield also selected CentralSquare’s CrimeView Analytics for actionable insights and DEMS for digital evidence management.

Registration for the 7th European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) MCX Plugtests, which will take place in Malaga, Spain, from 7-11 November.

Apple received a patent for a solution intended to help law enforcement perform a “lawful intercept” operation when a target mode may be off network.

In its most recent financial statements, AT&T said that FirstNet now has about 3.7 million connections across 21,800 agencies. Additionally, the filings said that the FirstNet network now covers 2.81 million square miles and more than 99 percent of the U.S. population.

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a new timeline for the completion of its investigation into Motorola’s dual roles as owner of the Airwave network and a supplier on the Emergency Service Network (ESN).

For years now, the public, business community and governments have waited patiently for drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), to finally make good on their early promise.

Verizon Public Sector received a nearly $400 million enterprise infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task order with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to help the agency meet increasing demands for data bandwidth around the globe successfully.

The Alliance of Telecommunications Industry Solutions’ (ATIS) Next G Alliance released recommendations forecasting the technologies that will be needed to advance the 6G future and areas in which further research is required on North American 6G priorities.

Dominion Energy and Skydio, a U.S. drone manufacturer specializing in autonomous flight, announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Dominion Energy a pivotal approval to fly Skydio drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) to inspect power generation facilities in seven states.