Marilyn Ward, executive director of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC), shares her views on public-safety issues in this exclusive interview.

Northumberland County, Virginia, chose Federal Engineering to evaluate and assess the county’s public-safety radio and paging communications systems.

Airbus announced it will enroll the Tactilon Dabat, its hybrid TETRA radio and smartphone, for certification on the German Federal Agency for Public Safety Digital Radio (BDBOS) network.

TETRA public-safety networks Nödnett in Norway and Virve in Finland are now connected, said Jarmo Vinkvist, CEO at Suomen Virveverkko, which operates the Virve network.

The Central Procurement Office of Schleswig-Holstein AöR (GMSH – Gebäudemanagement Schleswig-Holstein) contracted Motorola Solutions to provide new mission-critical radio solutions for police.

A market research firm said the global market for licensed mobile radio infrastructure and system integration increased 14 percent, reaching $4.6 billion in 2017. Significant growth was noted in Asia, as revenues increased by 26 percent. However, Europe also experienced 8 percent growth in infrastructure and system integration revenue.

AT&T expects to receive a $1.3 billion reimbursement from the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) during the fourth quarter, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) John Stephens said.

In 2019, Airbus will begin modernizing the professional mobile radio (PMR) network of the Berlin-based Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) public transport company. By 2020, the Tetrapol provider will have overhauled the network infrastructure and converted the system to IP technology.

The German Regional Court of Dusseldorf ruled Nov. 20 that Hytera Communications and German subsidiary Hytera Mobilfunk infringed a Motorola patent.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Information and Communication Technology (ICT) announced South Korea will extend the use of its voice mobile radio networks for disaster safety.