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4 Editor’s letter
Sam Fenwick discusses the increasingly
complex and collaborative nature of our industry,
together with its implications
6 Who, what, where
Everbridge’s alerting system live in Iceland;
Ambulance service updates Sepura kit; Nuclear
plant to use TETRA from Airbus; Croatia appoints
Motorola partners; ASTRO 25 deployed in Addis
Ababa; L3Harris supplies P25 Phase 2 to Utah
8 News
British APCO calls for clarity on NG999; IHS
Markit sees steady TETRA terminal growth
9 TCCA news
4th ETSI MCX Plugtests conclude; TCCA Young
Engineer winner to attend WE19
10 Critical messaging
Sam Fenwick takes a look at the big trends in the
world of critical messaging and alerting
14 TCCA’s strategy
Mladen Vratonjic speaks about TCCA’s priorities
16 Migration from GSM-R
Sam Fenwick explores the issue around migrating
Europe’s railways from GSM-R to FRMCS
21 Working with MNOs
What do public safety agencies need to consider
when negotiating with MNOs?
24 50 years of Swissphone
Angelo Saccoccia, Swissphone’s CEO,
discusses its past, present and future
26 Genaker
Miquel Teixidor, CEO of Genaker, speaks about
mission-critical broadband’s take-up
28 Cross-border comms
Public safety agencies need to have
communications in place across borders.
Richard Martin hears from those involved
32 IoT for non-missioncritical
SCADA
TCCA recently produced a white paper on
the topic of ‘Emerging IoT Bearers for non-
Mission Critical SCADA’. We summarise its
main points with additional commentary from
Nick Smye
34 Preparation for ESN
Ian Taylor speaks about the progress being
made by the UK’s emergency services when it
comes to preparing their people for the move
tobroadband
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