ARLA/CLUSTER: Vodafone assina contrato com o Motorola para continuar o sistema de emergência Airwave TETRA além de 2020 no Reino Unido

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Motorola, Vodafone sign contract to continue Airwave beyond 2020

Radio Resource International report Motorola Solutions and Vodafone
have agreed on a plan to keep the Airwave TETRA mission-critical voice
network operational through at least 2020, while the U.K. Home Office
said a report with a revised timeline and budget for the Emergency
Service Network(ESN) should be available by end-July.

Last year, the U.K. Home Office received information that Vodafone
plans to switch off Airwave from 31 March, 2020. Vodafone is a
subcontractor to Motorola, which owns the Airwave network. ESN is a
nationwide public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) network planned to
replace Airwave.

Stephen Webb, senior responsible owner, Emergency Services Mobile
Communications Programme (ESMCP), Home Office, said that a new
solution at no extra cost to taxpayers will be ready by March 2020
when Vodafone originally planned to withdraw the old time division
multiplexing (TDM) service.

“Vodafone will be providing essentially a replacement service over
standard IP kind of technology,” Webb said during a hearing held by
the U.K. Public Accounts Committee 21 February.

Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown confirmed the new
contract with Vodafone during a 27 February financial investor
webcast.

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