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First step towards a global MCS certification program adhering to 3GPP standards.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation and European number one in cloud, cybersecurity and high-performance computing, has announced its membership of TCCA, the global representative organisation for critical communications.

The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies, Inc. (“iCERT”) today publicly announced the formation of a comprehensive effort to promote effective integration and use of data in public safety operations; the Data Integration Initiative (“DII”)

As part of their focus of maintaining and upgrading the MCOP open APIs, MCOP announced the latest refactoring and upgrade of the MCOP Unified Open Application API, the so called MUOAPI.

The publication of the first findings are planned to be published during TCCA’s Critical Communications Week program on Thursday the 5th of November.

The Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA), a newly formed coalition to protect public safety’s use of 4.9 GHz spectrum, announced during a national webinar that it has launched a petition supporting the effort.

The PMeV – Netzwerk Sichere Kommunikation Association will launch a professional joint initiative for its members.

The 6th July 2020 marks the start of the Solution Prototype Phase (Phase 2) of the BroadWay PCP, with the signing of contracts by Astrid SA, the Lead Procurer of the BroadWay PCP and three successful consortia.

The TCCA announced that it is hosting a series of Critical Update webinars to ensure the information and details of progress are available to organisations across the ecosystem and beyond

Global Certification Forum (GCF) and 450 MHz Alliance today formalised a new partnership with the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that will see a GCF certification initiative extend to users of the 450 MHz band.

The next MCX Plugtests remote event will take place from 21 September to 2 October 2020.

Erillisverkot, offering secure and reliable ICT services for public authorities and other critical operators of national security in Finland, published a RFI on Virve 2.0 mission critical services in November 2019.

The new group intends to develop standards that define technologies to make more efficient use of capacity, have security by design, and provide lower latency for live media.

Mission Critical Testing as a Service project is developing flexible testing tools to increase market confidence in critical broadband applications.

The strong internationalisation of the PMRExpo was reflected in 2019 in the new record number of nearly 4,600 visitors from security authorities and organisations (BOS), the industry, public transport, utilities and other sectors.

The Czech carrier is building on more than 13 years of experience in providing professional broadband services, with a highly skilled team able to support a range of critical users and scenarios.

Parkinson was one of the first employees to join the FirstNet Authority in 2013, and since then he has served in a variety of leadership positions within the organization, including Executive Director of External Affairs.

TCCA is looking forward to a close cooperation with the Global Certification Forum in developing the new and definitive mission critical certification programme.

DSB, the operator of the Norwegian critical communications public safety network, announced that Nødnett Days 2020 offers program entries for both those who know Nødnett well and those who do not have as much experience with Nødnett.

At its year-end meeting last week, the First Responder Network Authority Board highlighted major areas of progress for FirstNet — the nationwide public safety broadband network — and outlined its priorities to ensure the continued evolution of the network