The Mexican Red Cross donated a digital communications solution by Motorola Solutions for the medical unit in Cancun to reinforce the unit's emergency and rescue work in the area.

ETELM and Nemergent, a working group that specializes in the development of interoperable emergency communications solutions, are collaborating on a mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) solution for critical communications over TETRA and Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Motorola Solutions entered into an agreement to acquire Kodiak Networks, a privately held provider of broadband push-to-talk (PTT) technology for commercial customers. Kodiak partners with mobile network operators globally — including AT&T — to offer its cloud-based PTT solution and management platform.

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) asked the FCC whether it is permissible for affiliated entities to solicit, prepare and file SMR applications on behalf of third-party investors, with agreements to construct their facilities and lease their spectrum in channel quantities that exceed the number for which a single applicant may apply initially.

Motorola Solutions said it delivered its 1,000th TETRA digital radio system and its 25,000th base station out of its TETRA Center of Excellence in Berlin. The 1,000th TETRA system was delivered to the prison in Berlin´s Tegel district and will be used to provide mission-critical communications to staff.

To help pay for a needed emergency communications network upgrade and address other challenges, public-safety officials in Utah worked with legislators on a bill that overhauled the state’s funding model and restructured its governance board.

Sepura was again chosen by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to supply a complete digital communications solution for one of its key visitor sites.

Critical Communications World, (CCW), scheduled 16 – 18 May in Hong Kong, is on track to attract more than 3,000 critical communications professionals with 90 percent of the registrations coming from outside Hong Kong, the organizer said.

Radicom, an integrator of communications solutions in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, was awarded a city of Chicago Department of Aviation contract to provide the city’s O’Hare and Midway International Airports with a new call-taking telephone system.

The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) begins an examination of how state and local processes affect the speed and cost of infrastructure deployment and asks for comment on improving state and local infrastructure reviews, such as zoning requests.