Law enforcement officers from around the United States and the world competed in the Baker to Vegas (B2V) race March 17 – 18. The annual event involves police organizations forming relay teams to run the 120-mile, 20-stage course from Baker, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hytera introduced prototypes of a dual-mode Long Term Evolution (LTE)-LMR communications solution, which will be available to U.S. customers in 2018.

Cobham AvComm was selected by WBL Services to provide radio communications testing and monitoring for the Super Bowl in February. The Cobham 3920B was used to ensure that critical radio communications used during the game by the teams and supporting ground operations were not subject to interference.

The FCC released a public notice providing guidance to commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers on filing their certifications of compliance with E9-1-1 location accuracy benchmarks as required by the commission’s rules.

Numerex announced a partnership with Software Tech Enterprises (STE) that will provide satellite-tracking systems to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The technology will provide real-time visibility to high-value assets such as critical equipment and materials for disaster relief assistance.

Tait Communications field demonstrated its upcoming seamless roaming technologies by the Monmouth County (New Jersey) Sheriff’s Office.

In conjunction with releasing a request for public comment on two separate March 9-1-1 outages by AT&T, the FCC released preliminary information from an investigation. Lisa Fowlkes, acting chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), said preliminary information found that a March 8 outage lasted about five hours in the U.S. Southeast, Central and Northeast regions.

The FCC proposed a penalty of $13,000 against Global Paratransit for apparently failing to operate its private land mobile radio (PLMR) station, call sign WPPY512, in accordance with the FCC VHF and UHF narrowbanding rules, failing to transmit its station identification, and failing to respond to a commission communication.

The National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) is offering a new technology membership category for wireless industry technology companies.

Malaysia launched its first mass rapid transit line with the help of Nokia and LG CNS. Nokia supplied a mission-critical communications network to to support railway operations on the new SBK line that will ultimately cover 51 kilometers and serve the 1.2 million residents around Kuala Lumpur.