BDBOS, the German nationwide public-safety digital radio network, selected Nokia to provide technical, maintenance and management services. Nokia successfully launched the service in December with all services and logistics sites equipped and ready for deployment, and employees trained and fully operational.

Valid8.com performed a successful live demonstration of an interworking function (IWF) between LTE mission-critical services (MCX) technology and legacy LMR public-safety communications systems using the company’s IWF emulator.

The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) announced the goals for next fiscal year for its 6 GHz Committee and a new web site that will make the resulting reports and specifications easily available.

Honeywell acquired a majority stake in Fiplex Communications, a Miami-based company that develops in-building communications systems, including bi-directional amplifiers (BDAs) that provide continuous and critical in-building radio coverage in challenging environments to improve the safety of first responders and building occupants.

In its bill implementing its 2021-2022 budget, the Florida legislature directed the Florida Department of Management (DMS) to award L3Harris a 15-year contract to continue operating and to upgrade its Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) contract.

The Florida House of Representatives and Senate reached an agreement on a budget proposal that would include $37.5 million in funding for the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, which begins in July.

Tranvia de Murcia, the tram service for the town of Murcia, Spain, selected Airbus to update the tram service’s secure TETRA communications network . The update will be completed with the collaboration of infrastructure and industrial engineering company COMSA Industrial, which will be installing and integrating the network.

Malheur County, Oregon, contracted Federal Engineering to provide public-safety consulting services.

The Florida legislature passed and Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that re-establishes a surcharge that helps fund the Florida Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS).

The Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) filed in opposition to the request of KTUL to substitute its current channel 10 with channel 14 in the Digital Television (DTV) Table of Allotments for Tulsa, Oklahoma.