A business case for the replacement for the Florida Statewide Law Enforcement Radio Systems (SLERS) estimated that implementation of the new system will take approximately four-to-six years. Therefore, the business case said it is critical that the state develop a transition and support plan that will allow the current network to support users through that implementation.

In an ex parte filing with the FCC, the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) proposed an approach for lifting the current application freeze in the T-band.

After concerns of a potential veto, President Donald Trump signed a coronavirus relief and government funding bill that includes a repeal of the T-band auction mandate.

President Donald Trump called on Congress to amend a coronavirus relief package that includes the repeal of the mandate that the FCC auction the T-band spectrum by 2021 in a short video posted to his twitter account.

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.

Airbus has been selected by the largest oil and gas company in Saudi Arabia to upgrade its mission-critical communications network. Airbus will deploy its Tactilon Agnet solution and latest TETRA technology.

The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) called on the FCC to immediately convene a task force to address interference caused to public-safety radio by the improper use of signal boosters commonly deployed to remediate poor in-building public-safety and commercial wireless coverage.

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.

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.