TETRA  |  2014-10-22

Cartel Communication Systems Partners with Hytera to Serve Canadian Market

Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor

Hytera America Inc., announced a distribution partnership with Cartel Communication Systems Inc. to support the demands of the industrial and commercial communications industry in Canada.

With a focus on the needs of the Canadian wireless carriers, Cartel Communication Systems has developed a comprehensive line of quality solutions coupled with engineering and implementation support to those in Public Safety, Transportation, Utilities and other Government Agencies.

"Canadian channel partners will have the benefit of support from Hytera as well as Cartel Communication Systems extensive national resources to ensure their own competitive advantage in the marketplace," stated Gary Lorenz, Vice-president of Sales at Hytera America Inc.

The establishment of this distribution partnership also allows for a "one face" approach to the unique dynamics of a marketplace spanning the world's second largest country. Cartel Communication Systems Inc. Product Manager, Dave Thuringer, noted, "Canada's geography has been and always will be favorable to commercial radio technologies; our economy has a large resource component that relies on commercial radio as a business critical tool." Mr. Thuringer continues, "On Hytera, we saw a growing, future-looking technology company striving to build best-of-breed, open standard DMR and TETRA technologies and deliver it to value-driven service conscious end-users."

This partnership combined with Hytera's Latin American operations will extend Hytera's brand presence from the Arctic Circle to the Straits of Magellan allowing users throughout the hemisphere to take advantage of Hytera heritage of design vision and quality engineering. Hytera is one of the top three 2-way radio manufacturers worldwide, actively involved in developing global PMR standards including TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) and PDT (Professional Digital Trunking).