Agilent is holding a series of spectrum analyser workshops in major cities across Australia. Read more »

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is well advanced in its review of the regulation of mobile phone jammers in Australia. As part of that review, the ACMA is also seeking views on a proposal to trial mobile phone jammers at the Lithgow Correctional Centre in NSW. Read more »

TR Bearcom has been named the 2009 Motorola Australasian Dealer of the Year. Read more »

Mobile technologies, including the global system for mobile communication (GSM) and ZigBee short-range wireless, could be used to monitor and detect bushfires, according to two research papers. Read more »

Telstra is upgrading its Fleetcoms trunked network - an MPT 1327 network - and replacing the existing switching infrastructure with new Tait nodes. Read more »

Radio Systems Technologies (RST) has established a partnership with The JRD Group. Both companies are based in Melbourne. Read more »

Daniels Electronics has started a celebration of its 60th anniversary leading up to the actual incorporation date on December 9. The following history of the company is extracted from its website. Read more »

The ACMA has released a discussion paper as part of its review of the pricing, planning and licensing arrangements for spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band. The 2.5 GHz band is currently used primarily by free-to-air TV broadcasters for electronic news gathering (ENG). Read more »

The chairman of the Daniels Electronics board, Terry G Daniels, is this year's recipient of the Radio Club of America's Fred M Link Award, "For his substantial contribution to the advancement and development of Land Mobile Radio and Communications." Read more »

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released a discussion paper containing proposals for establishing radiocommunications licensing arrangements for in-flight mobile communications on aircraft. Read more »

Australia’s Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope will be built in Western Australia’s mid-west following an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) signed with traditional owners, the Wajarri Yamatji people. Read more »

C4i has commissioned into service the first of 20 fire control centre switchplus systems being delivered to Aviation Rescue & Fire Fighting of Airservices Australia. Read more »

Australia’s latest company handling public safety and emergency communications networks, Airwave Solutions Australia, introduced its portfolio of services at the Radio Comms Connect exhibition and conference in Melbourne. Read more »

Telstra will upgrade its national fleetcoms trunked radio network, enhancing the quality and reliability of the service. Read more »

Laird Technologies has expanded its global distribution product portfolio with Mouser Electronics to include its thermal management product range. Read more »

LPRS, a European supplier of short-range radio devices, has been selected by MRI Services to provide wireless communications for wheelchair users. Read more »

The National Park Service (NPS) has installed Zetron’s P25 VoIP radio dispatch system at two NPS dispatch centres: one at the Midwest Regional Ozark Communication Centre (MROCC) in Harrison, Arkansas, and the other at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Dispatch Centre, near Keystone, South Dakota. Read more »

IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre have unveiled a miniaturised and wireless eight-channel EEG system suitable for remotely monitoring patients in their daily environment, resulting in more natural readings and greatly increasing the patients' comfort. Read more »

Testadvance has become the ditributor for Thiesen radio-over-IP products in the Asia-Pacific region. Read more »

M2M Connectivity has become the distributor for Australia and New Zealand for Maxtena, a GPS antenna manufacturing company. Read more »