Currenta, a leading operator of specialist chemical business parks in Germany, has ordered 500 TETRA digital hand-portable radios, of which around 150 will be intrinsically safe....

Hytera Mobilfunk, in cooperation with Sistema, has been asked to deliver a secure mobile radio network based on TETRA technology to Thales Spain, for a rail project in Istanbul, Turkey....

Zinwave has released details of the distributed antenna system (DAS) it has installed at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine....

In Germany, Cassidian – the new name of EADS Defence & Security – has been commissioned by Berlin’s IT service centre to link the State of Berlin’s 28 control centres to the national public safety digital radio network (BDBOS)....

In the UK, public safety network operator Airwave completed a major phase of its nationwide TETRA rollout to the British Red Cross, the humanitarian relief charity, in time for a visit by the Pope to Glasgow during September....

The first public safety TETRA network in Mongolia was deployed there recently by Teltronic. Its partner in the region, LG CNS, helped to install the system, supported by funds from the World Bank....

TETRA has come a long way since it took its first operational steps in the mid 1990s. For this first issue of TETRA Today, Tim Guest put questions to Phil Kidner, chief executive of the TETRA Association, about the past, present and future ...

A large TETRA radiocommunications installation is contributing to the success of Germany’s fastest-growing airport operation. Richard Lambley visited Munich to see it in action...

For mission-critical ground communications at busy airports, radio systems based on TETRA digital technology have become the natural choice. Alun Lewis looks into the reasons...

Mission-critical users need better access to spectrum, both to meet existing needs and for future data services. Risto Toikkanen, who chairs the TETRA Association’s Radio Spectrum Group, reports that efforts to overcome the obstacles are m...