EDMI and Sierra Wireless win award at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Sepura has won a contract with the Royal Military Police, Netherlands, to supply STP8000 portable radios.

Tait Radio Communications experienced the earthquake aftershock in Christchurch.

Motorola will supply radio communications infrastructure for QGC’s liquefied natural gas project.

Vicorp Corporation has formed a partnership with Soanar to bring Vicorp's communications technology to contact centres.

Radiometrix's radio modules are being used to monitor the performance of a solar-powered car.

Fylde Micro in England and Icom of Japan are jointly developing Mode 3 dPMR equipment.

A handheld mobile phone detector called the Wolfhound-PRO has been introduced to the American Correctional Association’s 2011 Winter Conference in the US. The Wolfhound-PRO is the third in a line of BVS's advanced, award-winning cell phone detection products and the most advanced in terms of sensitivity and features.

Zetron is celebrating 30 years of operation in the Asia-Pacific.

Step Global has added the Tallysman Wireless products to its range of GNSS (global navigation satellite systems).

The ACMA is implementing some measures to remove regulatory barriers to spectrum trading and leasing, and to provide better information to radiocommunications users.

Using the same technology found in clothing tags used in retail shop tracking systems, a study from the University of North Carolina shows that surgical sponges with implanted RF tags may be an effective adjunct to manual counting and X-ray detection in preventing sponges from being left behind in patients following surgery.

The DMR Association has welcomed five new members: Atlantic Telecommunications, Fisher Wireless Services, Repeater Network LLC and Saia Communications, based in the US, and Etherstack, based in the UK.

Andrew Solutions, a CommScope division in the US, has upgraded its GeoLENs mobile location centre to version 10.1 with additional and expanded functionalities.

Laird Technologies has expanded its global distribution with Digi-Key to include its infrastructure antenna systems product range.