Busy week for TCCA during Critical Communications Europe 2014

If that wasn't enough there were several other meetings at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolski in the center of Amsterdam. Also the TCCA Marketing Group held their meeting.

• The European Commission have contracted SGF to provide a study considering the feasibility of commercial network being able to meet the needs of PPDR, Smart Utilities and Intelligent Transport Systems. During the Critical Communication Europe conference in Amsterdam, TCCA facilitated a roundtable session between SGF and the European PPDR Operators.
• The TCCA and Motorola organised a joint press conference where several PPDR Operators presented.
• A Members General Meeting agreed the introduction of Proxy Voting for Members meetings. 21 Members were present at the meeting. An updated version of the Articles of Association will be circulated to Members.

The following day was a CCBG day. Approximately 40 participants discussed plans for future work items in CCBG, including on LTE security and resilience for critical applications, and heard updates on the working groups’ activities since the last plenary in October 2013. Reports were also given on progress with standardisation of critical comms features in both 3GPP and ETSI.

Having served an initial 2-year term of office, Tony Gray (CCBG chair) of P3 communications and Emmanuelle Villebrun (CCBG vice chair) of the French Ministry of Interior offered themselves for a further term, and were unanimously re-elected unopposed. Phil Godfrey, chair of the TCCA, thanked the elected CCBG officers as well as the management group and working group participants for their efforts and progress to date, and encouraged CCBG to keep up the good work “Towards a Broadband Future”.