After 42 successful years in the professional land mobile two-way radio and wireless communications industry, Quality MobileCommunications will close all business operations as of Dec. 31.

AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said the company has completed one-third of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) buildout, and the carrier is six months ahead of schedule of the buildout requirements in the FirstNet contract.

Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-SA) deployed an indoor positioning solution across its entire campus. The SafeZone indoor positioning solution, provided by CriticalArc, provides the campus police with a three-dimensional view of multistory buildings.

The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT) announced the addition of Exacom, a provider of distributed multimedia distributed recording solutions, to iCERT’s group of members.

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) made recommendations to the U.S. government to address GPS/Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) vulnerabilities and mitigate their impact. GPS and GNSS are vulnerable to jamming, spoofing and system problems.

Orion Labs’ Push to Talk iOS 5.2.8 mobile application is now First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) certified and included in the FirstNet App Catalog. First responders can use the voice communications platform with FirstNet’s priority access and pre-emption services.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites comments on a document that reviews the current and potential use cases of mobile and wearable devices by ?rst responders and analyzes them from a cybersecurity perspective. The analysis aims to assist jurisdictions with selecting secure devices by identifying security objectives, and to enable industry to design and produce more secure public-safety devices.

The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council released a report specific to managing user identification for mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT). The report provides high-level recommendations on the potential use of various MCPTT data fields to manage first responder identity and recommends creating a standard governing the MCPTT ID structure.

Two lawmakers asked FCC commissioner Brendan Carr for details on the health ramifications of 5G and small cell deployment.

Another Colorado jurisdiction filed a petition asking the FCC to address Long Term Evolution (LTE) interoperability among commercial carriers.