The emergency services (Police, Fire and Ambulance ) several years ago switched off their Analogue radios and took up TETRA (Airwave) which was initially run by O2. Unfortunately it has been costly and never lived up to expectations. The service is due to be switched off starting in April 2016. Airwave is half way between a mobile phone and a walkie talkie. It has very poor at mobile data, which runs at 7.2kbs. There is a standard to boost that to 700kbps but it has never been implemented.
With time running out will the Emergency services deicide to use the mobile phone networks instead? They already use them anyway them anyway as officers usually have mobile phones too.
Here is an article on the what may happen. There are however a few important areas that it fails to cover.
The mobile networks have to increase geographical coverage to 90% by 2017.
That old saying "There's an App for that" is a good way of getting around some of shortcomings they may have ie Talk Groups.
As for Latency (there is also Latency on Airwave) this is important for Firearms squads who still use Analogue radios.
Mobile networks already prioritise traffic for key personnel in the emergency services.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01..._onmishambles/
With time running out will the Emergency services deicide to use the mobile phone networks instead? They already use them anyway them anyway as officers usually have mobile phones too.
Here is an article on the what may happen. There are however a few important areas that it fails to cover.
The mobile networks have to increase geographical coverage to 90% by 2017.
That old saying "There's an App for that" is a good way of getting around some of shortcomings they may have ie Talk Groups.
As for Latency (there is also Latency on Airwave) this is important for Firearms squads who still use Analogue radios.
Mobile networks already prioritise traffic for key personnel in the emergency services.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01..._onmishambles/



