Industry News
DMR for Hong Kong super-bridge
Construction of the 50 km long Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will be smoothed with the supply of Hytera repeaters and radios. [ + ]
$24.6m system for Victoria's CFA
Telstra, Tait Communications and AA Radio Communications win the contract to supply 6000 radios to the Victorian County Fire Authority. [ + ]
Telstra and Motorola win Qld GWN contract
The new Queensland Government Wireless Network will be up and running in time for the G20 meetings in Brisbane in 2014. [ + ]
International radar conference in Adelaide next week
Australia will host defence, electronics and telecommunications leaders at the International Conference on Radar 2013 in Adelaide. [ + ]
Comms Connect 2013 - Melbourne, 20-22 Nov
Don't miss the strong line-up of speakers and exhibitors from Australia and around the world at the nation's leading radio and communication conference and exhibition. [ + ]
Friday fragments - comms news from around the web for 30 August 2013
A weekly round-up of critical communications and public safety radio news from around the internet for Friday, 30 August 2013.
[ + ]US and Canada agree on spectrum
The FCC and Industry Canada have announced agreement on spectrum sharing arrangements for wireless applications along the nations' common border. [ + ]
Motorola appoints new head for Australia, NZ
Motorola Solutions has appointed Steve Crutchfield as managing director, Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]
Global LMR market to grow 11.7%
A market study suggests the global land mobile radio market will grow by 11.7% CAGR over 2012-16. [ + ]
GPS AVL for NSW firies
All Fire & Rescue NSW fire engines are being fitted with AVL technology under an $850,000 government program. [ + ]
Friday fragments - comms news from around the web for 23 August 2013
A weekly round-up of radio and communications news from around the internet for Friday, 23 August 2013.
[ + ]Optical capacity world record set
A European fibre network has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest rate of provisioning multiterabit optical capacity. [ + ]
ARCIA Industry Dinner - last chance to book
Guest speaker for the 2013 SA Industry Dinner and Networking Event will be the Shadow Minister for Economic and Regional Development, Martin Hamilton-Smith. [ + ]
Zetron to resell Direct Technology’s ECaTs
Zetron will resell Direct Technology’s Emergency Call-Tracking System (ECaTs), an advanced management reporting solution for 9-1-1 systems. [ + ]
Altium provides ECAD and MCAD integration
Altium and Desktop EDA have partnered to provide PCB designers better ECAD and MCAD integration with Dassault SolidWorks, Siemens Solid Edge and Autodesk Inventor. [ + ]