Thousands of redundant TETRA radios will become available
The availability of Airwave TETRA radios may become of interest to the Amateur Radio community.
Southgear, the amateur radio newswebsite, announces that the amateur radio industry might be interested in the thousands of Airwave (UK emergency radio communications system) TETRA radios that will become avaialble.
The UK emergency radio communications system currently operates on a Tetra system provided by Airwave.
The Airwave contract is due to be reviewed and it appears that EE, a mobile phone company, has won the contract to operate on its 4G network. Currently the Airwave contract costs the UK around £450 million a year to operate and it is expected that the EE contract will cost around £1.2 billion over a 5 year period.
This may be of interest to the Amateur Radio community as it means that many thousands of Tetra radios will become redundant over the next few years and the news site wonders if this digital technology will find its use in new TETRA amateur radio networks....
