TCCA Reinforces the Importance of Document: "Considerations for Government Authorities when they are planning to acquire Mission Critical Mobile Broadband Services"
In a message to its members, the TETRA and Critical Communications Association today reinforced the importance of the earlier released document that provides a guide for governments who are planning to acquire Mission Critical Mobile Broadband Services.
The Document, produced by the TETRA and Critical Communications Association Critical Communications Broadband Group – Strategic Case Group - descibes that Mission critical communication is not just the domain of the law enforcement and the emergency services. Those responsible for the Critical European or National Infrastructure such as Gas, Electricity, Water, Transportation, Fuel and Petrochemical also need communications services that can withstand natural and man-made disasters.
There are many different ways of delivering these services and the question of how such essential services can be provided is highly political. A Government may build a dedicated network with the functionalities required by its emergency services, or may outsource to a commercial operator. Combinations of these approaches may include equipment and site sharing, spectrum sharing or simply buying capacity on a network through the MVNO model. But the political questions are more difficult to deal with. Will a government want to have full control over such essential services, or is it satisfied with leaving it to market forces?
Thes paper focuses on the situations in the circle and aims to highlight some of the considerations both for the users requiring any future mobile broadband service and the actual service providers and mobile operators who will take on the future delivery of these services.
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