Following the unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many future investment strategies for upgrading communications technology in the transport and logistics sector will have had their brakes put on. However, the reopening of the economy when individuals will once again be able to travel safely, and when global supply chains can get back up and running to pre-pandemic levels, will be a time to consolidate, not stand still.

The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) and the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET), a personnel certification authority for various technical fields, collaborated on a new in-building public-safety communications (IB-PSC) certification program, which is now available.

Airbus signed three new contracts to provide TETRA technology, equipment and terminals to three new metro lines in the cities of Foshan, Shenzen and Zhengzhou in China.

Pro-M, the operator of the Hungary’s public-safety network, and Hytera Mobilfunk (HMF) tested a multicell, mission-critical LTE network.

Etelm was selected as part of the INTEPID project consortium, which was awarded 6.8 million euros by the European Commission to create an innovative new platform for the safer and faster exploration and assessment of disaster zones.

The Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) filed a petition for rulemaking with the FCC that would modernize the rules governing protection of TV stations from LMR systems in the T-band spectrum.

The FCC adopted an order that incorporates changes to the commission’s rules consistent with the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which appropriated $1.895 billion for the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program.

Airbus completed the installation of its secure TETRA communications technology for Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, Chengdu’s second International airport and one of the five biggest international airports in China with more than 50 million passengers in 2019.

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on whether to launch a market investigation into Motorola Solutions’ Airwave network, which is currently used by all emergency services in the U.K.

The Peel Regional Police Department has undertaken a digital transformation comprised of 25 projects. Central among those 25 projects are a public-safety broadband network, the implementation of a new CAD system and an upgrade to next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) services.