The Swedish government 25 June issued two assignments to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), which will be the starting point for the work to develop a robust and effective broadband communications system for public-safety users.

Ericsson joined UNIFE, an industry association that represents European train builders and rail equipment suppliers. By joining UNIFE, Ericsson said it strengthens its commitment to developing critical network capabilities for the rail industry.

To maintain production and worker safety, industries in hazardous environments depend on reliable, organizationwide communications. EP Petroecuador is the national oil and gas company of Ecuador, specializing in the refining, storage, transport and sale of petroleum derivatives, both domestically and internationally. The company’s operations are of critical importance to the country, as oil and gas form a significant piece of the Ecuadorian economy.

The Australian Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements is seeking comments into the issues that affect firefighters and other emergency service providers, including communications.

The Royal Liverpool Hospital COVID-19 ward in the U.K. has a new paging system installed by Stanley Security Healthcare, with the aid of ViaLite Communications.

Because of the ongoing coronavirus public health emergency response, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will not conduct a national test of the integrated public alert and warning system (IPAWS) this year.

Swedish telecom operator Telia signed a contract with Motorola Solutions to provide its customers with a next-generation, Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard-compliant and future-ready, mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) solution.

The FCC is seeking comment on a June 15 T-Mobile USA outage that prevented customers from making calls, receiving calls and in some cases, sending text messages over T-Mobile’s voice-over LTE (VoLTE) network. According to social media reports, the outage also affected 9-1-1 calling for T-Mobile customers.

The Israel – U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation is seeking proposals for collaborative projects to develop advanced technologies for the homeland security mission. The BIRD Homeland Security (HLS) program is a joint initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Israel Ministry of Public Security (MOPS).

Several 6 GHz microwave equipment vendors that supply mission-critical backhaul networks said interference in the band is inevitable under new FCC rules that allow unlicensed devices into the spectrum for the first time and offered some suggestions to incumbent licensees.