A judge for a U.S. district court denied a motion from Motorola Solutions seeking an injunction that would prevent Hytera Communications from importing, distributing and selling specific products. At the same time, the judge granted Motorola a royalty for Hytera’s use of Motorola’s trade secrets.

Energa-Operator, a Polish electricity distributor that cover 24 percent of Poland’s landscape, deployed a modern, digital, independent and reliable critical communications system from Motorola Solutions over its entire territory and operations.

Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Oregon, is leading a consortium of a dozen response agencies that retained the services of Federal Engineering to work with them in the planning and conceptual design of a new Project 25 (P25) radio system to improve both coverage and interoperability.

This October, Sumter County, Florida, completed a successful test of Motorola Solutions’ CirrusCentral Core, a cloud-based secondary core for ASTRO 25 Project 25 (P25) LMR systems that eliminates the need for public-safety agencies to maintain a physical, in-building secondary core site.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) board authorized funds for an initial generational upgrade to the FirstNet network core at its Dec. 9 meeting.

The first resources and tools from a public-private grant partnership are expected to be released in 2021.

Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) chose a bridged TETRA solution from DAMM Cellular Systems for the replacement of the radio communication systems used for its gas separation plant (GSP).

In recent years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has worked together with U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) to improve situational awareness at the country’s northern border by establishing enterprise capabilities that give agents access to more data sources, decision support tools to translate the data into actionable information and intelligence, and information-sharing resources to enable collaboration with partner law enforcement agencies.

Sonim Technologies’ XP5s phone is among the initial devices approved for FirstNet Push-to-Talk (PTT), the nationwide mission-critical standards-based PTT solution.

Verizon Public Sector and Motorola Solutions announced Group First Response, a mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) solution that leverages LTE to enable first responders to communicate seamlessly via voice, data and video across a variety of devices.