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Planning for a return to normal in 2021
Following a heavily disrupted 2020, there'll be plenty of issues for the communications industry to work through in 2021, says ARCIA's Hamish Duff. [ + ]
AML leads to swift recovery of stranded kayakers
Advanced Mobile Location has helped save stranded kayakers at Seacliff, in South Australia, pinpointing the pair's location after a Triple Zero call. [ + ]
Telstra awarded $567m TasGRN contract
Tasmanian mission- and business-critical organisations will soon have a new multiagency emergency radiocommunications network. [ + ]
Nokia's Steve Hwang joins the ACCF board
The Australasian Critical Communications Forum has welcomed Steve Hwang to its board of directors. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Lightning protection for radiocommunication sites
A total system approach can protect radiocommunication sites from even direct lightning strikes to towers, antennas and powerlines. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Whatever happened to the National Strategic Radio System?
Governments have known about interoperability problems for decades. It is time for something to be done about it, says Ben Cosier. [ + ]
Best of 2020: No room for communications complacency in the 'new normal'
Australia's public safety communications need to be treated as a single ecosystem, with full spectrum allocations and proper funding. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Interview: TCCA’s Tony Gray and ACCF’s Kevin Graham
The mission-critical communications industry is firmly on the path towards open standards-based broadband solutions. [ + ]
Season's greetings
Critical Comms is taking a break now until early January, so we'd like to wish you a merry festive season and a safe and prosperous New Year. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Australia and the WRC — seeking spectrum harmony
Australia's delegation to the WRC-19 focused on advancing the nation's legitimate interests in spectrum policy and technology matters. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Keeping the Met connected with TETRA
With the ESN delayed, the London Metropolitan Police is refreshing its TETRA network to maintain services and add innovative capabilities. [ + ]
Huge expansion of emergency satellite comms
Hundreds of new fixed and mobile satellite dishes will give better broadband connectivity for first responders and the community during natural disasters. [ + ]
Managing to succeed with a technical project manager
Technical project managers are an asset of any technical project, and more organisations are using them to deliver projects. [ + ]
Virtual conference brings the industry together
The Comms Connect Virtual conference series covered a wide range of topics and attracted speakers from around the globe. [ + ]
Project to create next-gen wireless devices
Researchers are experimenting with adaptive, tunable filtering to reject interference in spectrum-sharing systems. [ + ]
