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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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
Project to create next-gen wireless devices
Researchers are experimenting with adaptive, tunable filtering to reject interference in spectrum-sharing systems. [ + ]
Big data for big radio telescope
A team preparing for the billion-dollar SKA radio telescope reached the shortlist for 'Nobel Prize of supercomputing'. [ + ]
Solving wireless connectivity issues in mining
How to build a reliable and secure network that is flexible enough to suit the changing conditions of the mining sector. [ + ]
WA announces plans for new emergency radio network
The project will replace more than 11,000 radio devices during its first phase, with the ultimate goal of building a new statewide communications system. [ + ]
Public Safety Mobile Broadband to be expedited
Australia's governments seem to have finally gotten the message regarding rolling out a national Public Safety Mobile Broadband capability. [ + ]
Nokia says 5G is up to 90% more energy efficient
From research undertaken with Telefónica, Nokia has found that 5G networks are up to 90% more energy efficient per traffic unit than legacy networks. [ + ]
BAI awarded contract to operate NSW's PSN
The NSW Telco Authority has awarded BAI Communications a five-year contract to manage the state's Public Safety Network, including the Network Operations Control Centre. [ + ]
Zetron celebrates 40 years, including 20 years in Australia
Founded in 1980 as a small paging business, Zetron has become one of the world's major suppliers of command and control room solutions. [ + ]
