Industry News
Friday fragments — critical comms snippets for 5 February 2016
This week: Comms Connect in 2016, US$1.3m in free radios, White House comms need upgrading, Codan expands Dubai office, and emergency radio not used during emergency. [ + ]
Tait appoints new CTO
Tait Communications has appointed Ross Spearman as its new chief technology officer (CTO), replacing Trevor Laughton, who will take over as general manager. [ + ]
Ericsson to continue managing the TMRN
Ericsson will continue to manage the Tasmanian emergency services radio network for the next four years. [ + ]
NZ increases available bandwidth for SRDs
The spectrum available in New Zealand for short range devices (SRDs) has increased by an additional bandwidth of 6 MHz in the 900 MHz ISM band. [ + ]
Backhaul, December 2015: the industry 25 and 10 years ago
Take a trip down memory lane as we look at what was happening in the critical communications field 25 and 10 years ago. [ + ]
Airbus lands Hungary Tetra contract
Airbus Defence and Space has landed a major contract to maintain Hungary's Tetra network over the next five years. [ + ]
Harnessing ICTs to save lives
ICT technologies for disaster management featured heavily on the agenda at GET 2016, ITU's Second Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications in Kuwait City. [ + ]
Brazilian state Maranhao chooses Motorola Solutions
The Brazilian state of Maranhao has expanded its radio communication network with Motorola Solutions to help drive down crime in the metropolitan region of Sao Luis. [ + ]
World Heritage site upgrades to digital with Sepura DMR
Blenheim Palace, the world-famous World Heritage Site in Oxfordshire, England, has upgraded its estate-wide communications system with a Sepura digital mobile radio (DMR) solution.
[ + ]Codan expands in Dubai
Codan Radio Communications has announced an expansion of its team in Dubai in an attempt to strengthen its operations in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. [ + ]
Dr Smith appointed secretary of the Department of Communications and Arts
Malcolm Turnbull has appointed Dr Heather Smith as the new secretary of the Department of Communications and the Arts. [ + ]
Sepura's new Group CFO takes up post
Sepura has kicked off the new year with the announcement that it has appointed a new Group CFO. [ + ]
SITA and EGYPTAIR pair up for mission-critical connectivity
SITA has signed a five-year agreement with EGYPTAIR to update the airline's entire communications network. [ + ]
Registrations now open for RadComms 2016
Australia's spectrum management conference, RadComms 2016, to be held from 9–10 March in Sydney, is now open for registration. [ + ]
Govt delivers first mobile base stations
Mobile base stations constructed under the federal government's Mobile Black Spot Programme have now been switched on in Qld and NSW. [ + ]
