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JANUARY 2019
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4 Editor’s letter
Sam Fenwick discusses the push for missioncritical
broadband in Australia and Germany, the
issues facing control room operators and the
work to keep TETRA networks up and running
6 Who, what, where
Airbus wins STEAG expansion contract; Motorola
supplies radios to police of cers in Schleswig-
Holstein, Germany; ETELM announces new chief
executive; Finland paves the way for Virve 2.0;
Heathrow uses SITA for network support; DAMM
unveils Thostrup as new chief executive
8 News
Motorola buys VaaS; NPS acquires APD;
ENENSYS snaps up Expway
9 TCCA news
TCCA details critical broadband timeline; HBFEC
joins TCCA; BIG meeting: Band 68, 3GPP
Release progress, andcerti cation
10 Country focus: Australia
Philip Mason gives an overview of mission-critical
communications in Australia
14 Situational awareness
Broadband LTE and technology such as video
analytics and machine learning can enable
a faster, more ef cient response and keep
personnel safer, argues James Atkinson
17 Control rooms
Sam Fenwick hears from control room solution
providers regarding the sector’s challenges
20 Comms for offshore wind
Sam Fenwick talks to Semco Maritime about
the use of TETRA to ensure workers’ safety and
co-ordination
22 CCBG Q&A
Tero Pesonen was recently re-elected as
the chair of TCCA’s Critical Communications
Broadband Group (CCBG). We catch up with
him to learn about its work
24 PMRExpo review
As always, there was much to see and do at last
year’s PMRExpo. Sam Fenwick reports
28 Turning up the funk
We visit Hytera Mobilfunk’s HQ to see its facilities
and get a feel for the work that is required to
keep its clients’ systems in full working order
31 BAPCO/Critical
Communications Europe
(CCE) preview
January 2019 @CritCommsToday 3
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