Friday fragments - comms news from around the web for 12 December 2014

A round-up of the week's critical communications and public safety radio news for Friday, 12 December 2014.

Delhi bucks at TETRA charges. The government of Delhi, India, is protesting to the nation's telecoms regulator about what it pays for using spectrum for public safety TETRA. Delhi says that because the spectrum is being used for non-commercial purposes, it shouldn't have to pay the almost AU$4m the regulator wants to charge it.

NATO's deployable comm system ready. Airbus Defence and Space has delivered the required three deployable communication and information systems (DCIS) units to NATO, with final acceptance imminent. The system supplies command-and-control capabilities to deployed HQs, mostly through satellite communications.

TETRA-LTE system tested. Still on the subject of Airbus, the company has tested a combined TETRA-LTE system as part of the highly mobile cellular networks study, or HochZeN, for the German armed forces. The main focus was on assessing the parallel operation of TETRA voice transmission and LTE broadband data transmission. In addition to networking multiple cells, additional networks and communication solutions were integrated and tested.

HERO activates for typhoon. The Philippine Amateur Radio Association (PARA) activated its Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) to meet contingencies of Super Typhoon HAGUPIT, providing essential communications services across the nation