Richardson Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Sarantel, manufacturer of filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices. [ + ]

A free service providing person locator beacons to bushwalkers in the Blue Mountaints may already have saved a life and assisted the rescue of two other bushwalkers. [ + ]

ETSI has launched a Wireless Factory Starter Group, aimed at identifying standardisation needs and opportunities in the expanding domain of wireless factory automation. [ + ]

Airwave Solutions Australia has been formed in a partnership between Airwave Solutions (UK), a private mobile radio network operator, and Broadcast Australia, an independent national wireless communications network operator. [ + ]

Aeroflex and w2bi (Wireless to Business Integration) have agreed to pool their test expertise and technology to jointly develop a network certification platform for LTE mobile devices. [ + ]

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) has expanded its partnership with Malaysian distributor C&C Universal Engineering to establish a bonded warehousing facility in Port Klang. [ + ]

Australia’s public safety communications sector has been boosted with the establishment of emergency and private mobile radio network specialist, Airwave Solutions Australia, that promises network resilience, security, coverage and interoperability for a wide variety of public safety agencies. [ + ]

EADS Defence & Security is extending the TETRA radio network of Stadtwerke München. Around 1000 subscribers use the network, which is being expanded from 15 to a total of 31 TB3 base stations. [ + ]

Daniels Electronics has renewed its radios distribution agreement with Kenwood USA that will continue to distribute Daniels radios for public safety and government agencies throughout the US. [ + ]

A focus on technical innovation in transport and how it is driving changes in radiofrequency spectrum planning and use is the topic of the Transport Spectrum Tune-Up in Melbourne on 18 November. [ + ]

Aeroflex has won a five-year, $47m contract with the US Marine Corps to supply ground radio maintenance automatic test systems. [ + ]

IMEC and its research affiliate, Holst Centre, have demonstrated a wireless sleep staging system. [ + ]

A $100 million International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has been opened in Perth. [ + ]

Motorola has won a contract to provide a TETRA digital trunked radio communications network to Urumqi Airport, China, together with Beijing Civil Aviation Tianyu Technology Development. [ + ]

Motorola Australia is providing an extension of the mobile data system of the Western Australia Police (WAPOL) and the Western Australia Department of Corrective Services (DCS) that will more than double the previous coverage area, providing the community with better-equipped police and prison officers. [ + ]