A new era for cyber security
28/07/2021TCCA vice chair Tero Pesonen discusses the imminent formation of the organisation’s new cyber security Working Group.
Public safety
ESN and Airwave: what’s past is prologue
23/06/2021With the UK’s Emergency Services Network in the middle of a crucial year, Philip Mason talks to ETSI’s Brian Murgatroyd about parallels between Airwave and ESN roll-outs
Voices of a nation: TETRA in the USA
23/06/2021Philip Mason gives an update on the US TETRA market, finding contrasting opinions about the anticipated use of the technology going into the future
Critical comms for public transport: at the crossroads
26/05/2021Philip Mason talks to Transport for London and Brussels STIB about how recent, major, public safety/health incidents have informed their critical communications strategies.
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The American evolution
25/05/2021Philip Mason talks to FirstNet chief executive officer Ed Parkinson about the additions made to the network over the past 12 months, as well as the benefits of a ‘competition’-based model.
Conformance testing: “We need to be meticulous…”
25/02/2021The first pre-verification of a mission-critical push-to-talk conformance test case has been achieved. Philip Mason talks to MCS-TaaSting project co-ordinator Dr Fidel Liberal about the implications ...
Emergency services broadband: looking for answers
25/02/2021Following the recent Virve 2.0 device RFI, Philip Mason talks to Finnish operator Erillisverkot, as well as Samsung, about functionality, user requirements and obsolescence
Advertorial: Wireless programming for critical communications
09/11/2020Organisations are increasingly being challenged for resources and time. Lengthy, resource-heavy procedures such as re-programming radios can be a significant logistical challenge, with radios based ...
Preparing for the next emergency
05/11/2020CCT editor Philip Mason talks to Motorola Solutions’ new vice-president for Latin America Alex Castañeda about the challenges presented by the region, and business development during COVID-19.
Culture of co-operation
05/11/2020Following the completion of a recent broadband concept study, Philip Mason discusses the next phase of Nødnett with DSB deputy head of department – and TCCA board member and director – Nina Myren.
Evolution of the use-case
05/11/2020Chair of ETSI’s Technical Committee for TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution, Brian Murgatroyd, talks to Philip Mason about the future of narrowband.
Advertorial: How does the Android Dispatcher work?
27/03/2020GlobalView Systems helps its customers deliver the right message, to the right person, at the right time to aid decision making.
US public safety LTE networks
17/03/2020The USA is undertaking a major project to build a nationwide public safety broadband network using a commercial provider, but it faces some unique challenges in realising its ambitions, as James ...
Cameras that have brains as well as eyes
17/03/2020Facial recognition technologies are increasingly being used by the public safety community, particularly for law enforcement, but they are proving controversial. Charlotte Hathway finds out whether ...
Network resilience and redundancy planning
17/03/2020Private PMR public safety networks are designed to be highly resilient, but the migration of critical communications users onto commercial 4G networks increases the complexity of planning for ...
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