Etherstack has signed a new $3.4 million contract with Queensland's Ergon Energy to provide support services for its P25 digital radio network for the next five years. [ + ]

Canadians are now able to access an interactive map that identifies which radio and television stations across Canada distribute emergency alert messages. [ + ]

The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the availability of the industry's Coexistence Test Plan, the result of a cross-industry effort and extensive research, discussion and testing. [ + ]

Motorola Solutions has introduced its WAVE push-to-talk (PTT) platform at Stuttgart Airport in southern Germany. [ + ]

Sepura will provide 3200 SC2024 and STP9200 TETRA hand-portable radios for the São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil. [ + ]

Airbus Defence and its partners have presented first results of Long Term Evolution for Professional Mobile Radio (LTE4PMR), a French research and development project designed to provide mission-critical broadband services. [ + ]

Hughes Network Systems has signed an agreement with Airbus Defence and Space to expand their business partnership to serve growing tactical military communications requirements around the globe. [ + ]

Watch this video of old Danish radar towers being brought down by demolition charges. [ + ]

A US teenager stumbled across a simple way to gain unpaid access to T-Mobile's LTE network, via an easy-to-fix flaw in the network's administration. [ + ]

Nokia has announced the Mission Critical Communications Alliance, a collaboration of mobile operators, public authorities and first response agencies. [ + ]

Sennheiser has appointed VExpress to distribute its premium headsets and telecommunication products in Australia. [ + ]

The Global Satellite Operator of the Year title has been awarded to Inmarsat at Euroconsult's 13th Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Communications. [ + ]

Inmarsat will provide aviation safety services to air navigation service providers and operators, following an agreement with Beijing Marine Communication and Navigation Company (MCN) and Aviation Data Communication Corporation (ADCC). [ + ]

National Instruments and Curtin University have entered into research collaboration in the field of instrumentation and signal processing techniques for radioastronomy. [ + ]

Find out what was happening all those years ago in 1991 and 2006, as we dig into the Critical Comms archives and take a trip down memory lane. [ + ]