World Congress News The 8th TETRA World Congress
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Growth in all sectors as TETRA reaches further around the world during 2005 October 2005 lists over 788 significant TETRA infrastructure and terminal contracts awarded in 77 countries – a contract growth of 27% compared to the last survey in 2004. Just as the survey was completed, announcements were made 7% in Hungary and in the UK Commercial & Industry 3% of nationwide contracts – Confidential 5% for the Hungarian Public Government 6% Safety services and for the English Fire and Rescue Military 6% Services respectively. Oil & Gas 2% Phil Godfrey, the TETRA PAMR 3% Association’s Chairman commented, “This is the PSS 45% third year in a row we have been able to report
The annual contract survey by the TETRA Association shows that TETRA has been deployed in over 40% of the world’s nations. The most recent contract review completed in Transportation 23%
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double figure growth in TETRA contracts. Not only has TETRA become the de facto standard for Public Safety users, it is also achieving significant growth in other market sectors such as Transportation and Commercial markets.” This success story for TETRA is echoed from around the world.
Placing the last piece of the puzzle? At yesterday’s TETRA Association Press Briefing, Hans Borgonjen, TETRA Association Board member and one of the founder members of the combined group of European Public Safety communications officers who have been helping to turn the Schengen vision into a reality, commented that, “Germany is very close to a momentous Public Safety communications decision. Their choice of a new communications technology will be a significant step to completing the harmonisation we are all hoping for.” Germany’s central role for PSS communications in Europe Mr Borgonjen demonstrated evidence of the strong support of
the political parties of the CDU and SPD coalition to the new national communications network with
reference to a quote directly from the coalition agreement showing the commitment to push forward the plans for building Germany’s new public safety network. “In order to improve PSS communications capabilities we will
push the introduction of a digital network (,Einführung des Digitalfunks‘) in coordination with the federal states and within the framework of the selected operator model. It must be our goal to provide nationwide coverage, a universal standard and a fair cost-splitting between Federal Government and the federal states“. Hans concluded that the picture puzzle has most of its pieces already set out across Europe forming a strong and coherent map of TETRA users. He added, “Just one or two gaps remain. The pieces have been identified and the best way to achieve the solution is clear – TETRA. It just remains to put them into place.”
In this issue: An array of antennas; Gala Awards ceremony tonight and how to get there; new contracts; new products; an innovative covert solution and a clue to yesterday’s language competition.
The top two user segments by contract volume are still Public Safety and Transportation who, between them, represent over two-thirds of the global market. However, growth in absolute terms for the Transportation market has now overtaken the Public Safety market. TETRA now deployed in 77 countries around the world Growth for TETRA has been strong in all regions around the world. With a large installed base, numerical growth continues to be most in the regions where national networks have been installed and users enjoy the benefit of multi-vendor choice and interoperability. This is focussed in Europe. However the fastest growing regions in percentage terms during the survey period were Africa and the Middle East, demonstrating TETRA’s momentum as a standard and its penetration into new markets outside of Europe.
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