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TETRA Around the WorldTETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) is an international, private digital mobile radio standard. It was developed by ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) over a ten year period and 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. This section summarises news on the implementation of TETRA-based systems around the world, and tries to provide a flavour of the types of organisations and applications using TETRA technology. The listing below is by date with the current year first. For more details on the geographical analysis of TETRA contracts click here.
2011 NJ TRANSIT launched a TETRA land mobile radio network pilot in Newark, New Jersey. (This was the first TETRA pilot hosted in the United States.) In Wisconsin, USA a pilot project for TETRA was carried out under the auspices of the TETRA Association in collaboration with various companies. It demonstrated the extensive features and functionality of TETRA technology, and showcased vendor interoperability and the power of TETRA-enabled applications. In Australia, Queensland Gas Corporation contracted for the supply of a TETRA radio communications infrastructure for its liquefied natural gas project in southern Queensland and Fortescue Metals Group, one of the world's leading producers of iron ore, selected TETRA for its Pilbara mines in Western Australia. In India, Tamil Nadu Police chose TETRA radios for their secure communications requirements, including control room applications. TETRA technology will also provide the telephony network, public announcement, onboard train communication, centralised recording and signalling systems for the Mumbai Monorail project, the first of its type in India. Lyon-Saint Exupry Airport in France and Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands selected TETRA systems following the deployment of a new digital communications system replacing their analogue networks. Moscow Metro chose TETRA technology to provide a secure and reliable communication system for enhanced safety and improved operational efficiency. Whilst in Latin America, TETRA radio communications systems were chosen for new metro lines in Santo Domingo and Panama City, offering secure communications for onboard, ground-based and operations dispatching. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted its approval for products conforming to the TETRA voice and data communications standard to be available in the US for business, industrial and transport sectors. A TETRA two-way radio network to be built for the local public transport services in the city of Halle an der Saale in Germany. In Spain, TETRA will provide an emergency and security network to cover the Balearic Islands: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera. Additionally, the inaugural line of the new Zaragoza City Tramway launched, supported by a TETRA radiocommunication system. TETRA systems allow police and emergency services in the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey to communicate across unified networks. For the first time worldwide, systems between two separate states can be joined whenever needed. Belgian Authorities selected a TETRA-based system to provide a nationwide Automatic Vehicle & Person Location Solution. The Canadian telecoms regulator (Industry Canada) issued a revision to its rules enabling equipment conforming to the TETRA voice and data communications standard to be type accepted. This revision allowed TETRA systems to be used in Canada for the first time. With the certification from Industry Canada, TETRA can now be used in all countries of the world. TETRA will provide the newly-opened Hindhead Tunnel on the A3 in Surrey, UK, with emergency services with vital uninterrupted communications throughout the full length of the tunnel. During 2010 and 2011 the biggest region-wide TETRA network in the North West Federal region of Russia was deployed, covering the St. Petersburg city and surrounding area in North West Russia region, close to 50,000 sq.km. The first fully operational TETRA network in North America is planned for Vancouver and surrounding areas. 2010 The relief efforts following the massive earthquake in Haiti were helped by a TETRA satellite solution that allowed Venezuelan aid teams to use their own TETRA radios in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In Denmark Billund Airport and Sønderborg Fire and Rescue chose TETRA for their digital communications systems. India's first Monorail Project in Mumbai, will use TETRA for its communication system. The first phase of the Mumbai Monorail Project will have 2 lines and cover 19 kms with 17 stations. In April the Mexican authorities carried out a major simulation of the effects on Mexico City of an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale using TETRA radios for the command and control centre co-run by the city’s head of government and chief of police. Mazatlan in Mexico has chosen TETRA radios for its public safety organisations. Mazatlan is a premier tourist destination in the Mexican state of Sinaloa and one of the key states in the war against the drug trade and needed a new radio solution providing effective and secure communications. TETRA is being used in the remote Gorgon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility in Western Australia. More than 500 hand-portable and mobile radios - including vehicle, fixed and marine terminals - will fulfil this unique project’s challenging and exacting communication requirements. TETRA radios are meeting the digital communications requirements of the Glasgow Subway in Scotland. The new system will facilitate seamless communications between the Subway and the emergency services. Authorization has been granted by the USA FCC and Industry Canada for a TETRA base station to operate in the 800 MHz and 450-470 MHz bands. Until now TETRA has not been used in North America, due to an absence of type approval for equipment in case of interference with adjacent channels. An adaptation to the modulation enabled this problem to be overcome. In the Canaries Islands the airports at Grand Canaria and Lanzarote have selected new TETRA digital communication infrastructures. Alpha Ventus, the first off-shore wind farm in Germany will be using TETRA technology to link the off-shore platform, 12 wind turbines and the operations centre in Norden and provide communication with helicopters. In China a TETRA radio communication system for the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau will be the largest digital trunked network for the police in China providing secure radio communications for more than 25,000 users in the city of Shenzhen and offering secure communication services for the 26th World University Games scheduled for August 2011. 2009 The emergency services in the province of Lodi in the Lombardy Region of Italy can now rely on a state-of-the-art TETRA solution throughout the entire province. London’s South Bank, a cultural hub for visitors, is now safer thanks to a TETRA solution that brings together public and private organisations, a dedicated police team, and a private patrol service enabling communication on any reported security concerns to be shared quickly. UK paramedics will now be able to communicate within the inner cordon of major hazardous incidents, thanks to the delivery of new ‘intrinsically safe’ TETRA radios which are safe to use in environments such as petrochemical works, industrial areas or accident scenes where there may be explosive gases. A multi-million pound boost to the UK emergency services radio communication system has been agreed for the 2012 Olympic Games. The investment will fund an increase in the capability of the system so it can cater for thousands more users from within the police, fire and ambulance services underlining the commitment to a safe and secure Games. Motorways in Thuringia, Germany, will have a TETRA digital radio infrastructure and a dispatcher system installed at 43 locations covering more than 450 kilometres of motorway. TETRA will be used at the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome. Airports are fast moving, potentially hazardous environments that provide one of the toughest tests for communications systems. TETRA has proven to be an excellent solution, delivering the reliability, security and functionality required. Rio Tinto’s latest deployment of TETRA technology will provide a secure and mobile working environment at their Operational Centre in Perth, offering seamless communications with the company’s remote mine and rail sites. State-owned Kuwaiti oil company, KNPC, has chosen a TETRA network including explosion-proof terminals for 1650 users to ensure fault-free and safe operation of the refineries and enhanced communications when the crude oil is loaded onto ships and tankers. In Wales Cardiff’s city centre partnership RadioNet is the first retail management and security radio system in the UK to use TETRA radios. The system enables seamless and multi-agency communication by providing separate talk groups for different disciplines within the retail, police, city centre and local authority teams. The UK Highways Agency is equipping more of its Incident Support Units (ISUs) with TETRA radios. Since 2005, more than 500 Highways Agency traffic officers patrolling in 200 vehicles have used TETRA, but this number is being significantly increased when 900 Incident Support Unit personnel will begin using the technology later this year. The role of ISUs includes the removal of debris from carriageways, infrastructure repairs and the provision of traffic management equipment. LAT, Russia’s roadside assistance service for motorists, has chosen TETRA radios for its communications in the St Petersburg region. LAT provides motorists with a full range of services, including emergency roadside repairs and recovery, examination and repair of car accident damage, independent estimates and garage listings. 2008 The Jordan Rally, part of the World Rally series chose TETRA to provide its communications. TETRA used in Greece by the National Ambulance Service in Thessaloniki. The Pakistan police force migrated its communications to TETRA, with some 70,000 terminals expected to be rolled out over a 3 – 5 year period. The Crown Macau Hotel and Casino uses a TETRA based communication system for communication between staff on security and front of house duties. The fire service in St Petersburg in Russia followed its ambulance colleagues in deciding on a TETRA communications system for its mission critical communications. The emergency services communications system in Valencia in Spain is moving to a TETRA solution and will be built to support up to 15,000 users from various emergency and security services. Madrid’s Zaragosa Airport, host to the 2008 World Expo, used TETRA to enhance internal and external communications and aid its operations. TETRA technology chosen to provide the communications for Beijing’s Airport Rail Express project. 2007 During 2007 the use of TETRA expanded in a number of countries and sectors. In the transport sector, TETRA is providing a unified digital radio system for the St Petersburg metro, communications for the North Luzon railway in the Philippines, links for the Hong Kong MTR Metro stations, communications for Barcelona, Leipzig, Sofia and Munich airports, and bus communications for Connex in the Swedish town of Umea. TETRA was chosen for national public services networks in Estonia, Hungary, Norway, and the French region of Aix en Provence; for the South Korean Police; and for municipal communications in Lima. In the commercial sector TETRA is providing the communications at a large train manufacturing plant in Canada, for one of Australia’s five star gold coast resorts, and for Anne Frank House in the Netherlands. In the sporting events world a TETRA-based communications system monitored the location of ambulance crews, paramedics, race doctor and race organiser for the Great North Run in the UK, the world’s biggest half marathon, provided communications services for the July 2007 pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, with the system subsequently retained by the Rio Police, and for the Asian Games in Qatar. 2006
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