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Research and Markets: TETRA Technology and European Market ...
MarketWatch - USA
This report continues the research into the Public Safety Communications (PSC) Sector. In particular, it updates the technical information on the ...

 

...Events in the U.S. and all around the world showed that existing public safety radio characteristics do not satisfy new requirements. Particularly, those events demonstrated that first responders had difficulties to communicate with each other in a case of crisis. Decentralized structure of the public safety agencies, their desire to control means of communications inside of one agency without detailed planning to support also communications with other agencies created a dangerous situation. This situation is characterized by:

-- Absence of coordination between government entities to equip first responders with compatible radios and to create homogeneous networks

-- Absence of adequate redundancy to support first responders communications

-- Delay in deploying advanced technologies

-- Absence of continuity of operation planning. ... 

 

[Note: RH - While TETRA is not in the US and has certain technical features that may not work well in the more wide open areas of the US, the underlying, non-technical, barriers to interoperability still apply as in the quoted section above.]