Four panel discussions featuring local and international experts will be held during the Comms Connect conference in Melbourne at the beginning of October. [ + ]

Chongqing's Public Security Bureau has recently contracted Hytera to complete a PMR project that will result in a Hytera DMR Trunking Pro system being installed across the city. [ + ]

Radio Spectrum Management New Zealand is reviewing the Radiocommunications Act and has extended the deadline for the phase-out of 25 kHz LMR channels by four years. [ + ]

Rod Gilmour, chairperson of the NSW Telco Authority, has released his latest communiqué to update industry on Authority developments. [ + ]

oneM2M, the global partnership developing standards for M2M comms and the Internet of Things has made its initial Candidate Release of Technical Specifications available for comment. [ + ]

Critical Comms' latest issue out now; Comms Connect Melbourne 2014; FirstNet Acting GM blog post; Critical Communications Middle East; M2M winners.

Backhaul takes you on a trip down memory lane as we look at developments in the critical communications industry 25 and 10 years ago.

Registrations are now open for ACMA's RadComms2014: Spectrum rebooted - taking stock conference in Sydney in September. [ + ]

M2M wireless network provider KORE Wireless will sponsor and present at the upcoming MobileTech 2014 conferences in Brisbane and Auckland. [ + ]

NBN Co has chosen Ericsson Australia to deliver fixed wireless and satellite services to businesses and consumers across regional and rural Australia. [ + ]

The GPS IIF-7 satellite was launched into orbit on 1 August, becoming the seventh of 12 such satellites Boeing has built for the US Air Force, and the third on-orbit delivery this year. [ + ]

The 18th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), held from 22-23 July, was hosted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in Sophia Antipolis, France. [ + ]

Simoco has begun rolling out critical communications technology for VicRoads to improve the efficiency of its mobile radios and safety of its vehicles and drivers. The initiative sees the supply of an in-vehicle P25 upgradable solution, specifically designed to address the needs of the emergency services, to the Victorian State Road Authority. [ + ]

Proposals for the SATELLITE 2015 conference and exhibition, to be held from 16-19 March in Washington, DC, are closing soon. [ + ]

The federal government has announced an investment of $3.2 million in new sea and air rescue facilities at Broome through the Community Development Grants Programme. [ + ]