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System operational within minutes and accomplishes Tetrapol radio communications with additional broadband data capacities

Morpho and other members of the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) are working to ensure public safety and government agencies also benefit from a network that is already a commercial success

The conference will be held in Paris on November 26, 2014 and will present the industry and standards body vision on end-user needs towards future PPDR systems, including roadmaps for LTE, TETRAPOL and TETRA technologies.

The efforts of TCCA/CCBG and other mission critical stakeholders in 3GPP have been recognised with the formation of a dedicated Working Group (SA6) to undertake specification work for applications in the mission critical communication space.

Tero Pesonen, nominated and sponsored by VIRVE, the Finnish nationwide authority TETRA network, has been elected as the new chair of the TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG).

The 2014 Summit will examine critical communications from different perspectives. ETSI will look at the public policies at stake, the opinion of professional users, the cost/benefit analysis, and technology and standardization challenges.

The 3GPP SA Plenary meeting (TSG SA#65), in Edinburgh this week, approved the creation of WG SA6, to initially focus on the Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) application...

Arico Technologies, a leading company providing consultancy, project management and training for the professional mobile radio industry, today announces its collaboration with Nomor Research in the area of Future LTE Public Safety Systems

With public safety playing a key role in the government’s agenda, Huawei is set to lead discussions on how public and private sectors can leverage ICT to provide more effective public safety services, at the Critical Communications Middle East Conference

The European public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) community has given a cautious welcome to the recommendations in the High Level Group (HLG) report made to the European Commission on the future use of the 470-790 MHz UHF band.

On 26 June 2014, the TCCA and PSCE hosted a one-day seminar on the Future of Mobile Communications 2020+.

SNS Research's latest report indicates that spending on small cell infrastructure for military and public safety networks is expected to reach $350 Million by 2020.

Collaboration vendor Mutualink releases a white paper that encourages FirstNet officials to consider what application functionality should be included in various parts of the network—particularly as they relate to deployable systems—to enhance efficiency

The PSCE conference will be followed by the SALUS 1st Conference that will discuss the future communication demands on Public Protection and Disaster Relief,

Sprint said that “800 MHz public safety and non-public safety licensees required to be retuned in a total of thirty-nine NPSPAC Regions and the U.S. Territories have fully completed 800 MHz band reconfiguration efforts.

The goals of The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) are challenging but achievable, according to a new whitepaper published this week by Mutualink.

Harris Corp. and Nokia Networks have introduced a long-term evolution coverage service offering in an effort to help public safety customers transmit data and videos.

The New South Wales (NSW) Telco Authority is responsible for the overall coordination of radio telecommunication services for the NSW Government in Australia.

The company says it is ready to start test running at its Valenciennes test centre in northern France with its Urbalis communications-based train control (CBTC) and Huawei's LTE 4G telecommunications system.

Secure communication has always been the most powerful tool when it comes to ensuring public safety. Operational success often depends on the quick and reliable transfer of information, whether that’s just audio or HD video and data as well.