Zetron is providing its P25 console system to the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences at Boulder, Colorado. Personnel at ITS will use the system to learn and understand how a console system operates within a P25 network. They will also use it to develop P25-complicance assessment tests. [ + ]

Increased security and reliability is needed to grow wireless sensor network market, despite energy-harvesting breakthroughs. [ + ]

Controllis has appointed C4i as an authorised distributor for its product line in Australasia. [ + ]

Tait will provide digital radios to the Mississippi State public safety network. [ + ]

ARCIA has welcomed eight new members to the association. [ + ]

The ACMA has published draft rules for the digital dividend spectrum auction [ + ]

The Duke of York attended the opening of Hytera’s relocated UK headquarters in Slough. [ + ]

The NAIT bill is in New Zealand Parliament’s Committee Stage. [ + ]

The Tait RFUANZ Industry Excellence Awards will be held on 14 May in Te-Papa, Wellington, New Zealand. [ + ]

TR Minecom has been sold to US electronics manufacturer PBE. [ + ]

The ACMA is providing licensees the opportunity to apply for apparatus licences in the paired 500 MHz segments to replace device registration under their spectrum licences. [ + ]

Imec, the Holst Centre and partners have created what is said to be the world’s first RFID circuit made in low-temperature thin-film technology that allows reader-talks-first communication. [ + ]

Sepura celebrates its 10th birthday in the radio industry. [ + ]

An antenna design concept has been created to eliminate the proliferation of antennas on military equipment. [ + ]

The company has appointed Vasan Srinivasan as business development manager. [ + ]