The Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) of Western Australia has chosen the Vertex Standard VX829 handheld transceiver as its front-line radio for the WAERN (Western Australia Emergency Radio Network) Project.

Many of the yachts in the 2007 Sydney to Hobart race used new fixed wireless terminals to track competitors and obtain weather updates as they fought their way to the finish line.

Tait Electronics Limited has spun off part of its group research division working in the field of high spectral efficiency radio as a separate company within the Tait Group.

The board of directors at Daniels Electronics Ltd, a supplier of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) radio equipment, has announced the promotion of Gerry Wight to the position of vice-president of sales and marketing and the promotion of Douglas Bigrigg to Canadian national sales representative effective immediately.

The WiMAX Forum has announced plans to create an official certification laboratory in India by 2008.

Siemens and Free2move have deployed the Siemens Wireless Asset Tracking (SWAT) at Siemens' Malaysian headquarters in Petaling Jaya.

Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced that US wireless health monitoring company FitSense has standardised on its nRF2401A 2.4GHz transceivers in its wearable, coin-cell sensor powered ActiHealth BodyLAN system.

Researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip.

The 27 miners rescued from the Ballarat mine collapse used an Australian designed and manufactured radio system to immediately contact the surface to report their condition and exact positions. This led to their quick recovery, through a nearby ventilation shaft.

IBM and OATSystems have announced that they will jointly deliver RFID solutions in Australia and New Zealand. The partnership will help retailers, consumer products companies and manufacturers harness the potential of RFID technology.

Rob Gill, a former Nokia executive, has been appointed as a non-executive director of Christchurch-based radio communications solutions company, Tait Electronics Limited (TEL).

The inaugural RadioComms Connect 2007, held in Melbourne in November, was a tremendous success for delegates and sponsors alike. Over 200 radio communications professionals, resellers and vendors enjoyed a day of informative presentations, networking and viewing the latest products and technology advances.

M2M Connectivity has been named as the distributor for Stellar Satellite Communications Ltd satellite data communications products in Australia and New Zealand.

Zenitel Norway AS has won the contract for delivering the infrastructure, including the complete radio communication system, for what claims to be the world’s deepest road tunnel, Eikesundsambandet, in Norway.

Smart and adaptive antenna technologies are entering a stage of full market acceptance, according to a report from West Technology Research Solutions (WTRS), a Silicon Valley-based research, publishing and consultancy company focused on emerging wireless technologies.