Industry News
Tasmania Police replaces in-car data terminals with tablets
Tasmania Police has rolled out more than 1000 3G-enabled Windows 8 tablet computers to replace in-car mobile data terminals and desktop PCs. [ + ]
Greek Police chooses Sepura TETRA to cover its largest region
Sepura has been selected by Lamas Pinto Consultants to provide a mission-critical TETRA communications system for the police in Attica, the largest administrative region of Greece. [ + ]
ARCIA economic study available for download
ARCIA's landmark study into the worth of spectrum used for the LMR industry is now available for download from the association's website. [ + ]
WA Police digital radio expands into the Pilbara
Police digital radio has been rolled out in the Pilbara as part of the state government's $94.5m Community Safety Regional Radio Network, with 95% of the WA population now serviced by the digital system. [ + ]
Successful P25 interoperability test for Simoco and Omnitronics
Simoco and Omnitronics have completed P25 interoperability testing of Simoco's SB2025NT Simulcast/Voting infrastructure and Omnitronics RediTALK dispatcher solution, via the DRG100 radio gateway. [ + ]
World's largest MPT network to convert to DMR
Hytera Communications has been awarded the contract to upgrade Altech Fleetcall's analog radio trunking network to a digital mobile radio network. [ + ]
Zetron's AcomEVO wins 'hot product' award
Zetron's AcomEVO, utilising the P25 CSSI to link to a P25 Phase-II network, has been named a 'hot product' for 2014. [ + ]
Tait wins managed services contract with Californian power company
Tait Communications has won a five-year contract to provide managed services for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's MPT Classic radio system in California. [ + ]
ARCIA releases economic report on LMR spectrum use
A long-awaited economic report reveals that spectrum used for land mobile radio (LMR) services in Australia generates benefits of between $1.99 billion and $3.72 billion every year. [ + ]
Backhaul, November 2014: the industry 25 and 10 years ago
We take a trip down memory lane as we look at what was happening in the critical communications field 25 and 10 years ago.
[ + ]Anritsu receives VNA Price-to-Performance Leadership Award
Anritsu has received the 2014 Price-to-Performance Leadership award in the Vector Network Analyser (VNA) market from Frost & Sullivan. [ + ]
UK ambulance service chooses Airwave Messenger
Airwave Solutions UK has secured a contract with the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust to provide TETRA Messenger to their community responder groups. [ + ]
Simoco launches full duplex calling for DMR
Simoco has announced an upgrade of its DMR offering that includes the capability for full duplex calling on its range of DMR portables. [ + ]
Icom's IC-M506 awarded best marine radio
Icom's IC-M506 was awarded the title of 2014's best marine VHF radio at the 2014 NMEA International Marine Electronics Conference & Expo in Florida. [ + ]
Productivity Commission to make recommendations on mobile broadband
The Productivity Commission has been tasked with undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of the best way to deliver a mobile broadband capability for public safety agencies. [ + ]
