A weekly round-up of critical communications and public safety radio news from around the internet for Friday, 30 August 2013.

Don't miss the strong line-up of speakers and exhibitors from Australia and around the world at the nation's leading radio and communication conference and exhibition. [ + ]

The FCC and Industry Canada have announced agreement on spectrum sharing arrangements for wireless applications along the nations' common border. [ + ]

Motorola Solutions has appointed Steve Crutchfield as managing director, Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

A market study suggests the global land mobile radio market will grow by 11.7% CAGR over 2012-16. [ + ]

All Fire & Rescue NSW fire engines are being fitted with AVL technology under an $850,000 government program. [ + ]

A weekly round-up of radio and communications news from around the internet for Friday, 23 August 2013.

A European fibre network has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest rate of provisioning multiterabit optical capacity. [ + ]

Guest speaker for the 2013 SA Industry Dinner and Networking Event will be the Shadow Minister for Economic and Regional Development, Martin Hamilton-Smith. [ + ]

Altium and Desktop EDA have partnered to provide PCB designers better ECAD and MCAD integration with Dassault SolidWorks, Siemens Solid Edge and Autodesk Inventor. [ + ]

Western Australian industry and science will benefit from a $26m WA government investment in the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. [ + ]

Zetron will resell Direct Technology’s Emergency Call-Tracking System (ECaTs), an advanced management reporting solution for 9-1-1 systems. [ + ]

Rohde & Schwarz and HAMEG Instruments are set to deliver a range of cost-effective test and measurement 'Value Instruments'. [ + ]

A weekly round-up of radio and communications news from around the internet.

Zetron will demonstrate its Remote Command-and-Control Suite at APCO 2013 in Anaheim, California. [ + ]