In a letter, the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT) urged members of Congress to pass legislation.

The U.K. Communications and Marketing Authority (CMA) released several proposed controls that would limit the amount of money Motorola Solutions can make from continued operation of its Airwave network.

The new judge in the ongoing theft of trade secrets lawsuit between Hytera Communications and Motorola Solutions proposed a schedule for dealing with two outstanding motions in the trial.

The latest set of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Plenary electronic meetings (e-meetings) concluded on September 19. The meetings focused on Release 18 (R18) which is currently in progress. R18 will become the inaugural release for 5G Advanced that includes new innovations toward the 5G vision. The plenary e-meetings made solid progress on the study items and work items that form the basis to advance the agreed upon R18 features. The following reports discuss the current status of R18 work.

The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) granted one long-form application and issue 41 new priority access licenses (PAL) in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band.

The FCC entered into consent degrees with five telephones carriers to settle investigation into whether the carriers failed to file 9-1-1 reliability certifications for 2021 by the deadline of October 15, 2021.

The U.S. district judge overseeing Motorola Solutions’ lawsuit against Hytera Communications in the Northern District of Illinois retired.

In its tentative agenda for its October open meeting, the FCC included an item that would improve the security of the national alert and warning systems.

First and foremost, we understand that the 4.9 GHz was, is now and will remain primarily a band allocated for use by public-safety entities. That fact is not in dispute by the industry trade associations that represent private wireless interests, for sure public-safety advocacy groups, and those institutions whose members also serve the public welfare but fall short of the mission critical description.

In June, the FCC adopted a report and designed to improve the reliability and resiliency of commercial wireless networks by implementing anew Mandatory Disaster Response Initiative (MDRI).