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TETRA around the World

TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) is an international, private digital mobile radio standard, developed by ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) over a ten year period. It is designed to provide the emergency services, public utilities, transport organisations and other professional users of mobile communications with greatly improved communications.

TETRA networks have been deployed throughout Europe and many other regions of the world since 1997. The public safety sector remains the largest user, followed by transport, utilities, government, military and oil and gas sectors.

At the end of 2005 there were more than 788 TETRA contracts in 77 countries around the world, including:

Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden. Norway, Denmark, Finland, UK, Ireland, Jersey
China, Singapore, South Korea, India, Thailand, Kazakhstan
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Turkey, Egypt
South Africa, Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, Morocco
Russia, Poland, Bulgaria
Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Panama, Brazil

For more details on TETRA contracts click here.

News in brief:

2006

The Estonian Government will use TETRA for the Estonian Public Safety Network. Users will include the police, border guards, rescue services, and other organisations responsible for public safety.
The Argentine civil police force in Mendoza, one of 23 provinces in Argentina, has recently invested in a new TETRA communications infrastructure. Deployment of the first phase will be completed by the end of 2006.
TETRA is being used to provide communications for Barcelona Underground.
Stadtwerke München GmbH , Germany’s largest municipal energy supplier has chosen TETRA for the new digital operations radio system to meet its requirements for security, performance and commercial efficiency.
The Portuguese Government has chosen a TETRA network to enable seamless inter-agency voice and data communications across 53,500 users in the police, fire and ambulance services, as well as other public safety and civil protection agencies.
The Shanghai Government TETRA Radio Network is designed to enable 50,000 users from different government agencies in Shanghai to communicate on a single unified platform.
Seville’s metropolitan TETRA network was recently created to address the communications needs of public safety (police, fire and ambulance), utilities (water company), public transport and municipal organisations (environmental services).
In China Beijing Metro will be replacing its existing communication system for its Line 1 and 2 Operations; the new TETRA network is expected to be operating by the second half of 2007.
The Swedish Coastguard service will use TETRA to help its 600 officers patrol the thousands of square kilometres of sea from Haparanda in the North to Strömstad in the West.
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will use TETRA to manage traffic on one of the world's busiest commercial waterways.
SIA Rīgas satiksme, the municipal enterprise of the city of Riga has chosen Sepura TETRA radios for the Latvian capital’s public transport.

2005

In November 2005 it was announced that all fire and rescue services throughout England will be using Airwave’s TETRA-based communication service. Lancashire and Shropshire fire and rescue are already using the service.
Italy’s ‘Progetto Interpolizie Tetra’ project will deliver a TETRA-based communications network for the country’s 5 national police organisations, over a period of 4 or 5 years, and is ultimately expected to have around 300,000 users.
In August 2005 a TETRA-based system was used for communications at the Helsinki World Games.
In July 2005, it was announced that the Ambulance Trusts in England had chosen Airwave’s TETRA-based communications service. Two Ambulance Trusts – Hereford and Worcester NHS Trust and Mersey Regional Ambulance Service – are already using the service.
The Airwave service provided communications for the emergency services during the G8 summit in Edinburgh in summer 2005, and also provided the main communications platform in the aftermath of the London bombings on 7/7 (7 July 2005).
In April 2005 the roll-out of the Airwave service to all 51 police forces in the UK was completed, with more than 100,000 police officers already using the service.

2004

A temporary Airwave service was provided to help the emergency services respond to the Boscastle flooding in Cornwall in August 2004.
A TETRA system was used to provide communications for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
After the bombings in Madrid on 11 March 2004, the emergency services praised the TETRA system there in helping them respond quickly.
Minera Argentina Gold SA announced its intention to use a TETRA system.

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