Radio Spectrum Management has issued its latest regular monthly update, outlining changes to the fixed service bands in New Zealand. [ + ]

Sepura's German partner, Selectric GmbH, has won contracts for the supply of more than 6000 TETRA radios to fire brigades in two regions of Bavaria. [ + ]

With the launch of the third Inmarsat-5 satellite, the Global Xpress network is on track to become the first high-speed Ka-band broadband network to span the world. [ + ]

This week: UK trying to sort comms mess, DARPA wants to share spectrum, could comms have saved Cecil?, and will Motorola buy Airwave UK? [ + ]

Tait Communications has appointed Craig Clapper as its president of global solutions and business development, charged with building new opportunities with customers and partners. [ + ]

SpeedCast International has been awarded a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract from a global oil and gas service company covering services for both onshore and offshore in Asia-Pacific and Africa. [ + ]

Sepura has supplied a TETRA system to the Subsea 7 North Sea Spoolbase in Vigra, Norway, comprising TETRA infrastructure, STP9000 hand-portable radios and a dispatcher solution. [ + ]

Zetron and Airbus DS Communications have announced the successful integration of Zetron's AcomNOVUS dispatch console system with the Airbus VESTA Radio P25 network solution. [ + ]

The St John Ambulance (Qld) Toowoomba Division has received more than $5300 from the Community Benefit Fund to purchase vital radiocommunications equipment. [ + ]

Codan Radio Communications, the US division of Codan Limited, has been awarded a US$1.1 million contract to supply its Stratus Network to an undisclosed US government agency. [ + ]

Equipment identified as being involved in a power outage at the Ambulance Tasmania communications centre in July and a further partial outage last week has been replaced. [ + ]

This week: The importance of interoperability, secret WWII listening base, seeing through walls with Wi-Fi, Silver Lake invests in Motorola, EPIRB saved lives in Qld boating accident, Taiwan jumps into 5G research, and Europe in LTE slow lane. [ + ]

John Hughes will step down as chairman of the board of Sepura on 7 September after five years at the helm, to be succeeded by Russell King. [ + ]

One of Poland's largest power distribution companies, ENERGA-OPERATOR SA, has chosen Motorola Solutions' TETRA technology to migrate its communications to digital. [ + ]

EnerSys, a stored-energy solutions company, has acquired Melbourne-based ICS Industries, resulting in a larger reserve power, site solutions, field services and motive power business in Australia. [ + ]