The Southern Hemisphere's premier critical communications event, Comms Connect, made a spectacular return to New Zealand this week, bringing hundreds of attendees to Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre from 26–27 June. [ + ]

Early Warning Network is partnering with Tomorrow.io to become the sole reseller of the latter's resilience platform and proprietary weather data in Australia. [ + ]

The ACCF's CCBitesize Webinar brings mission- and business-critical end users in Australasia/Oceania the latest in critical communications deployments, trends and innovations impacting the sector. [ + ]

The ACMA is seeking views on planning options to possibly introduce radio local area networks and/or wide-area wireless broadband services in the upper 6 GHz band. [ + ]

At next week's Comms Connect NZ conference, five industry and sector leaders will discuss the pros, cons and synergies of non-terrestrial and terrestrial networks. [ + ]

The field testing solution from Softil, Rohde & Schwarz and Alea enables MCX solutions to become field tested for interoperability and compatibility. [ + ]

The Australian Government is partnering with industry to develop innovative aviation technologies that can make a real difference for communities, particularly those in regional Australia. [ + ]

With this new certification, mission-critical services operators and service providers can be sure of the quality and compliance of devices and services. [ + ]

Open to visitors by appointment, the centre will offer live demonstrations of a variety of public safety capabilities enabled by Telstra's network. [ + ]

The program is a government initiative funding upgrades to improve the resilience of mobile network telecommunications infrastructure in regional Australia. [ + ]

Enea is collaborating with Zain KSA to pilot a novel mobile network signalling overlay technology that significantly extends signalling firewall capabilities. [ + ]

The 2000 m² facility includes a dedicated floor for R&D, engineering and manufacturing to fulfil orders from government, defence and commercial customers in 70 countries. [ + ]

The Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) has reached a new milestone, elevating its positioning services up from 95% to 99.5% accurate service availability. [ + ]

Optus and Ericsson have deployed dynamic energy efficiency software solutions in the telco carrier's 5G mobile network, enabling a potential incremental reduction in energy consumption. [ + ]

Nokia has officially completed its acquisition of Fenix Group, a privately held company that specialises in tactical 3GPP communications solutions for the defence communities. [ + ]