The Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) asked the FCC to withdraw a report and order that would allow states to lease 4.9 GHz spectrum to commercial entities, utilities and other from consideration for its Sept. 30 meeting.

Motorola Solutions won four awards at Good Design Australia competition. The company earned the awards for its next generation of mission critical solutions in video and voice communications.

Motorola Solutions introduced the CirrusCentral Core, a cloud-based secondary core for ASTRO 25 Project 25 (P25) LMR systems. Available as a subscription service, the core is always current with the latest communication software and eliminates the need for public-safety agencies to maintain a physical, in-building backup core site.

PowerTrunk, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Teltronic, deployed a TETRA critical communications solution to the island of Bermuda to support all public-safety organizations on the island. Working with delivery partner Electronic Communications and in close cooperation with manufacturing partners Sepura and Teltronic, PowerTrunk deployed the solution early in 2020. Police, fire and ambulance services will all be connected to the new network, as well as other emergency responders, including the Royal Regiment.

A variety of public-safety and industry entities argued that an auction of the T-band spectrum will not be successful and finding spectrum to relocate incumbents will be costly and difficult in comments to the FCC.

Dinwiddie County, Virginia, retained the services of Federal Engineering to support the implementation of the county’s new public-safety mobile radio system.

Former Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate encouraged the use of mesh networking to help empower volunteers during natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires.

Hytera Communications’ U.S. subsidiaries and Motorola Solutions agreed to a stipulation in the subsidiaries’ bankruptcy case that will allow post-trial procedures in an Illinois lawsuit between the two company to continue.

The U.S. Trustee for Region 16 of the United States recommended that a California bankruptcy court grant a Motorola Solutions motion to dismiss or alternatively suspend a bankruptcy case filed by the U.S. subsidiaries of Hytera Communications.

DAMM won the award of a tender to renew the radio system for the Zurich Airport.