Harmonisation required to create global market for critical comms
LTE is coming to the critical communications sector, but it will take many years to reach its full potential.
Jeppe Jepsen, board member of the TETRA + Critical Communications Association, tells George Malim how he sees the LTE deployment challenges being resolved
With LTE selected as the future core technology for emergency services and other critical infrastructure organisations in the US, it is now clear that it will become the bearer for public safety communications across the world. However, to fulfil that potential, harmonisation of national and regional approaches to deployment must be encouraged and maintained.
‘The TETRA Association has changed its name to the TETRA + Critical Communications Association (TCCA) because we recognise there are major organisations among our membership that are looking at their long-term development and that long-term is LTE/4G,’ says Jeppe Jepsen, board member of the TCCA. ‘They are looking to the TCCA to assist them in making the right choices.’
A critical issue - and one that must be among the first to be resolved - is the securing of access to spectrum for critical communications. That can’t be done in a piecemeal fashion from nation to nation if the benefits of a standardised global market are to be achieved.
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Source: www.wireless-mag.com
