Friday fragments — critical comms snippets for 9 October 2015

A round-up of the week’s critical communications and public safety radio news for Friday, 9 October 2015.

Icom wins marine radio award. For the second year in a row, the Icom IC-M506 has taken out the ‘best marine VHF radio’ award category in the US National Marine Electronics Association’s 2015 awards.

Sepura sponsors Supercar. Sepura Group has sponsored Erebus Motorsport’s number 9 Mercedes V8 Supercar for the Bathurst 1000 car race, to be held from 8–11 October. Driven by brothers Will and Alex Davison, the car achieved fourth position in last year’s race and hopes are high for a position on the podium at this year’s event. “This is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the Sepura brand, not only in the Australian market but to a worldwide audience,” said Terence Ledger, Sepura’s regional sales director for the APAC region.

Nokia returns to public safety. Nokia is reportedly coming back into the public safety communications market after 10 years of dormancy. The company will use its expertise with LTE and a network of partners to offer products in markets around the world. Doubtless Nokia wants to jump on the LTE-for-public-safety bandwagon before it really gets rolling.

Comms Connect Melbourne. Don’t forget that Comms Connect Melbourne is coming up soon. To be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 2–3 December (with workshops on 1 December), the event promises to be another runaway success. You can see full details of the speaker sessions, plenaries, workshops, exhibitors, etc on the Comms Connect website.