Public Safety

A period of transition: mission critical comms in the Nordics

21/05/2023

Ahead of Critical Communications World in Helsinki, Philip Mason talks to the five host operator nations about the challenges facing the region, and imminent (and not so imminent) moves to ...

The big interview: Olivier Koczan

15/03/2023

The Airbus SLC CEO talks to Philip Mason about the company’s work with the French authorities, and its successful bid to provide core services to the Réseau Radio du Futur project.

On the brink of disasters: the crucial need for PPDR spectrum

01/03/2023

Vice chair of TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group, Luz Fernández del Rosal, makes the case for the shared used of spectrum in the 470-694 MHz range in order to benefit public safety.

Feature: always changing, always evolving

16/01/2023

Critical Communications Today talks to two organisations – one manufacturer, one user – about the development, provision and deployment of two-way radio technology for public safety.

Government authority focus: Canada’s community spirit

13/12/2022

Philip Mason talks to the Canadian Public Safety Broadband Network Innovation Alliance about its mission to deliver next-generation comms to the country’s emergency services.

ICCAs focus: The next generation

08/09/2022

Winner of TCCA’s Young Engineer of the Year award at the 2022 ICCAs, NSW Telco Authority’s Shaunak Patel, discusses the importance of recognising young professionals within the industry.

Turning the page

09/05/2022

Emergency services are beginning to use both paging and broadband technology to contact staff, albeit with the use of the latter proving problematic. Swissphone has developed a hybrid solution which ...

Faith in the future

10/03/2022

Following a recent report on the use of ‘cutting edge’ technology by emergency services, Philip Mason talks to Goldsmiths University’s Dr Jennifer Barth and Motorola Solutions senior vice-president ...

Engineering a safer future

10/03/2022

With shockwaves from the UK Grenfell Tower disaster still being felt, Tait Communications talks to CCT about a new solution it believes can provide complete comms continuity across the fireground

BWV for ambulances: the camera eye

01/02/2022

Motorola Solutions’ head of mobile video, Richie McBride, talks to Philip Mason about a recent, major, BWV roll-out to ambulance crews in the UK.

ICCAs focus: north-western heroes

18/11/2021

Philip Mason talks to the University of Louvain about their ICCA-winning satellite comms roll-out at a COVID-19 testing centre in Piedmont, Italy

ESN exclusive: in sight of the finishing line

10/11/2021

Philip Mason talks to Emergency Services Network programme director John Black about key learnings from the previously troubled project, as well as his predictions for the future of the critical ...

Staying in contact

07/10/2021

As the ‘Next Generation 999’ concept is becoming increasingly important to the public safety call-handling conversation Philip Mason speaks to some of the major players facilitating the use of ...

BAPCO 2021 speaker interview: into the future

07/10/2021

NENA immediate past president, Monica Million, predicts that emergency services' use of the cloud will be ubiquitous in coming years.

Why the modernisation of public safety communications can’t wait