Comments regarding the FCC’s fifth report and order and fifth further notice of proposed rulemaking adopting rules for transmitting Z-axis location information with indoor wireless 9-1-1 calls and seeking comment on narrowing the Z-axis location accuracy metric are due Feb. 18.

Carbyne hired Rob Clark as general manager of North America.

NextNav announced it raised $120 million in debt and equity financing. Funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group led the round with NextNav’s existing investor base, including Columbia Capital, Telcom Ventures, funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, NEA, Oak Investment Partners and Future Fund, all participating.

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) acquired URL Integration, an IT consulting company specializing in the criminal-justice and public-safety sectors. The acquisition is the second for MCP this week, after buying Black & Veatch’s Public Safety consulting services earlier this month.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) became a member of the European Telecommunications and Standards Institute (ETSI), a European standards organization.

Oakland, California, selected a CAD solution from Motorola Solutions to help ensure the resiliency of its operations during a disaster.

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) published “Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Updating Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Outage Contact Information (ATIS-0100068).” The document provides information on how public-safety answering point (PSAP) contact information is to be collected and documented.

More than 30% of cell sites were down Jan. 8 in Puerto Rico following a 6.4 earthquake Jan. 7. By Jan. 9, the number of cell sites down had improved to 19.5%, according to data from the FCC.

Radio console supplier Modular Communication Systems (ModUcom) is back in business under new ownership after closing its doors in 2018.

Alaska announced two initiatives, wireless 9-1-1 and consolidation of emergency communication services (ECC), to improve law enforcement services to all Alaskans.