PSCE Highlights 4G/5G in Proposal to Review EU policy on Mission Critical Communications
PSCE announced this week the publication of a paper adressing the need to review EU policy regarding Mission Critical Telecommunications, taking into account requirements for public safety communications.
The paper describes the need for the review of EU policy and regulation regarding mobile telecommunications, and the potential for infrastructure sharing for the delivery of Mission Critical applications/services, networks and devices. This paper provides also a summary of work carried out by the BroadMap project which has studied the current Telecom Package of directive and regulations, NIS directive and other related materials.
No EU policy currently identifies the need for critical mobile applications, networks and devices for operation and roaming across all European countries. Each country and/or operator currently has its own discretion to define whether mobile services are considered as a critical information infrastructure or not. Live EU Interoperable mobile systems are expected to be developed and released for use by PPDR responders within the 2025 timeframe.
Now is the time for the respective regulatory bodies to begin to consider the sharing of critical information infrastructure over, or alongside, previously considered non-critical infrastructure. Infrastructure sharing must be analysed towards the aim of harmonising operation of mobile networks across Europe to achieve EU Interoperable broadband for 'life saving' public safety response.