International community embraces public-safety LTE - one of the top stories in 2013

According to the publication: Once an initiative unique to the United States, making LTE a long-term global communications standard for first responders gathered significant momentum during 2013, with one result being that public-safety requirements are expected to be addressed in the next two releases of LTE. Canadian officials have expressed confidence that the country’s 700 MHz broadband spectrum allocations for public safety will mirror the airwaves usage in the U.S. Meanwhile, a United Kingdom representative expressed a desire to have LTE replace the TETRA system in the UK as early as 2016.

Officials from Australia and Germany have expressed similar long-term goals, but they did not have such an aggressive timeline as the UK.