Sepura partners Zenon Digital Radio and Adesal Telecom provided the Onda City Council in Spain with new TETRA digital radios for its police force.

The Maryland Department of Information Technology awarded Federal Engineering a four-year contract extension to assist in the completion of the state's statewide public-safety communications system, Maryland FiRST, by providing full-time contract management services through May 2022.

The FCC announced a streamlined procedure to authorize non-federal public-safety entities to use the 40 channels that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) designated for interoperability. Under the new procedure, non-federal public-safety entities need obtain only written concurrence from their designated statewide interoperability coordinator (SWIC) or a state-appointed official prior to filing an application with the commission to use the federal interoperability channels.

Mobile World Congress (MWC) organizers use a Tait Communications Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) network to keep its workforce connected and ensure the event runs smoothly and safely.

Tait Communications and Transport for London (TfL) signed a contract for the replacement of London’s bus radio system with a new Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) system. The agreement will see Tait manufacture and replace both the communications infrastructure providing coverage across Greater London and the terminal equipment on London’s fleet of almost 10,000 buses.

Comments to a request for waiver by Flint Hill Resources (FHR) for three UHF channels allocated for use by public-safety entities because of the lack of available industrial/business (IB) spectrum were mixed.

Harris was selected as the prime systems integrator to modernize and upgrade an Asian nation’s military communications network, extending the company’s role as the country’s incumbent radio provider.

The Project 25 (P25) Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) plans to begin Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) and Console Subscriber System Interface (CSSI) testing next year using the Department of Interior (DOI) test laboratory in Denver. Initial testing will consist of only conformance testing — not interoperability testing.

Barrett Communications supplied high-frequency (HF) radio communications equipment for surveillance boats that operate in the remote and environmentally challenging Aysen región in the south of Chile.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and Sepura, part of Hytera Group, signed a contract for Sepura TETRA radios used on the German Agency for Digital Radio of Security Authorities and Organizations (BDBOS) TETRA network following a security review.