TCCA-Critical Communications

✅ ✅ Another tick in the TETRA interoperability box as we announce the results of the single full test session hosted by Motorola Solutions at their Krakow offices. The gold standard TETRA IOP process is managed by our Technical Forum chair Harald Ludwig and conducted by our contracted independent certification authority DGTCSI-ISCTI, part of the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, which supervises the testing sessions and issues the certificates, available to download here https://lnkd.in/eS9_HF2S

Webinar tomorrow! - Global Certification Forum (GCF) and TCCA-Critical Communications on the new MCS Certification Programme - with Harald Ludwig, Asif Hamidullah, Magnus Tränk and Peter Gundersen https://lnkd.in/emsYxCp6

Our chairman Mladen Vratonjic has been participating in the NENA 2024 event in Florida, pleased to return the support that Brandon Abley and Monica Million, ENP gave us at our TCCA Critical Communications World event in Dubai in May. The NENA event is a significant annual conference with a large number of participants from the ranks of 9-1-1 authority personnel; PSAP managers and supervisors; telecommunicators; dispatchers; 9-1-1 service providers; GIS and addressing professionals; telecommunications and network specialists; law enforcement personnel with 9-1-1 oversight responsibilities; public safety applications developers and others from the industry. It was an opportunity to meet with the NENA leadership to discuss future ways of cooperation with TCCA-Critical Communications and opportunities to enhance our presence in the US. Mladen presented on the global development and trends of critical telecommunications and participated in a panel with Monica, Holly Barkwell, ENP, Laurene (Laurie) Anderson and Duncan Swan, discussing outages in the work of public telecommunications networks and the consequences of those outages on the functioning of both emergency and critical communications. We look forward to continuing the conversations! https://lnkd.in/gJmv7pdT

Notice for an upcoming Request for Information (RFI) published by Australia's National Emergency Management Agency. The RFI will be for Australia's Public Safety Mobile Broadband (PSMB) capability/network solution.   https://lnkd.in/eJubr9fS

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it?! Finding time during this week's ETSI FRMCS Plugtests for a well deserved celebration following the announcement that Global Certification Forum (GCF) is adding 3GPP -based Mission Critical Services to its certification programme are, from left, Olivier Genoud, ETSI, Leader of TF160, Fidel Liberal, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Harald Ludwig, chair of our Technical Forum and Co-convenor of the GCF MCS workstream, Kevin Graham our CEO, and Saurav A. ETSI, Project Manager FRMCS and MCX Plugtests. Not present but a key figure in this work is Asif Hamidullah, GCF and Co-convenor of the GCF MCS workstream. Years of work by many people contributed to this huge step forward for critical communications - if you want to know what it's all about, listen to the latest Omdia CritComms Circle podcast with Paul Bremner, Ildefonso de la Cruz and Fidel Liberal - https://lnkd.in/e_r8qUbK

Looking back at TCCA Critical Communications World 2024 in Dubai - what a terrific event that was! And looking forward to our 2025 event hosted by ASTRID in Brussels - 17-19 June 2025 - lock dates in your diaries now! https://lnkd.in/eRmuj7Xy

The informative 2024 5x5 Public Safety Innovation Summit event from First Responder Network Authority and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) PSCR last week provided an excellent window to today's US public safety broadband communications as well as many glimpses into the future. The international participation underlines the global efforts to drive standards based critical communications forward. Our Board vice-chair and chair of our Critical Communications Broadband Group Tero Pesonen represented TCCA and the work of our members, presenting on Public Safety Advancements around the Globe with TCCA members and partners - pictured below, from left, Brianna Huettel, PMP, Jeff Bratcher, Guillaume LAMBERT, Tero, Antti Kauppinen, Inspector (Ret.) Lance Valcour O.O.M. and Brad Morell. Many thanks for the invitation and the ongoing support and collaboration - the more support we have, the more we can collectively achieve. https://5x5.firstnet.gov/

An overview of this week's successful Comms Connect New Zealand event from Westwick-Farrow Media in Critical Comms edited by Lauren Davis. Our CEO Kevin Graham gave an update on critical communications activities around the world, and took the opportunity to catch up with TCCA members, and colleagues at Australian Radio Communications Industry Association (ARCIA) and RFUANZ. Our Australasian Critical Communications Forum Limited (ACCF) had a stand at the show - below Kevin is seen with Gary Botley from Zetron and Bidar Homsey from Frequentis - both ACCF directors. Now looking forward to Comms Connect Melbourne in October - the call for papers is open now. See you there! https://lnkd.in/eYv6_DCM

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Counting down to Comms Connect New Zealand at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre organised by Westwick-Farrow Media, where our CEO Kevin Graham will be presenting alongside a great line-up of speakers including Sirilal Mallawa Arachchi, Pete Bains, Tony Baird, Laura Beanland-Stephens, Jonathan Brewer, Hamish Duff, Paul Elmes, Ian Graham, Kerei Gray, Wayne Hamilton, Michael Healy, Geoff Hird, Heide Lukosch, Alex McHaffie, Misha Mirza, Richard Moot, Mark Rocket, Matthew Schultz, Paul Smith, Josh Solomon, Graeme Stanley, Andrew Ugarte and Lloyd Wensley - join them all here https://lnkd.in/e3wrVGbw