The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determined that three Motorola Solutions patents are valid. The PTAB, however, determined that four claims in one of those patents are unpatentable.

India’s COAI, an association representing telecom, internet, technology and digital services companies, partnered with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), a European information, communications and technology (ICT) standardization organization, to collaborate on areas of mutual interest.

Damm Cellular Systems and systems partner Wellracom began an upgrade from an analog system to a digital TETRA solution for PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara, a mining company in Indonesia.

Motorola Solutions executives expect recent acquisitions to give it a competitive edge and contribute to growth this year.

The French Ministry of Interior (MoI) Home Affairs Technologies and Information Systems Department ST(SI)2 has selected most of the suppliers for its critical communications broadband solution. The selections follow a process that started in 2015 in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.

Movement to develop a 5G-based direct mode vehicle-to-everything (V2X) New Radio sidelink continued at the latest Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) meetings in Shenzhen, China, in March, according to attendees.

Vertel, Australia’s largest privately owned telecommunications carrier, met compliance obligations including a declaration of conformity and RCM labelling from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for its push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) devices, the Telo TE390 and Telo M5.

An 8– 9 April exercise tested the practice of using the Integrated System of Emergency and Security Networks of Portugal (SIRESP) to support the command-and-control requests made through the Regional Civil Protection Service. Madeira’s Operational Command and Military Zone teams conducted the ESPADA 19 communications exercise.

A digital communications network based on Motorola Solutions MOTOTRBO technology will benefit New Zealand’s commercial organizations. The Orion Converged Communications Core (OC3) will provide highly secure and reliable voice communications, extensive coverage and access to feature-rich applications.

The Secretariat of Public Security of the Brazilian state of Goiás awarded Teltronic a contract to deploy a radio system that will improve the efficiency of the state police’s operations and provide communications that meet the highest standards of safety and reliability.