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Government reveals snooping figures
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue & Customs, Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service, the... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops
Photo The Airwave service is expected to be rolled out to police, fire fighters and ambulance services by 2009. The East of England Ambulance Service is one of the first in the country to roll out the Airwave secure digital radio network to paramedics. [27 Nov 2007]
London bombing report slams 999 radio network
News The Metropolitan Police Service will complete its delayed rollout of Airwave next month but the London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade will have to wait until September 2008 and November 2008 respectively. [16 Aug 2007]
India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life
Comment Ambulance services are also pathcy - and much cover is provided by private hospitals. I watch one of dispatchers sending out an ambulance to a snake bite victim in a serious condition. Instead each service has its own number - 101 for police, 102... [05 Mar 2007]
Airwave £115m deal down the Tube
News Under the deal, O2 will link the network used by the emergency services to the Tube's own Connect digital radio system, to allow workers from the police, ambulance and fire services to have radio coverage when working in the Tube's tunnels and... [05 Feb 2007]
£390m ambulance radio upgrade rollout begins
News A new £390m ambulance radio system will improve communications with other emergency services and minimise the risk of interference with vital medical equipment. Work on the overall programme is "already well underway" with the rollout of the radio... [27 Dec 2006]
O2 pulls out of €100m police radio network bidding
News O2 had been tipped to pitch its Airwave service against four other consortia led by Arqiva, BT, Eircom and Rivada Networks for the lucrative National Digital Radio Service (NDRS) contract to replace ageing analogue radio systems for the Garda... [04 Jul 2006]
O2 in race to build €100m Irish police radio network
News O2 is up against BT and Eircom in the battle to win a contract to build a €100m secure digital radio network for the Irish police, fire and ambulance services. O2's Airwave digital radio network is already used by police in England and the company... [03 Jul 2006]
7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings
News Despite this network overload, the emergency services did not invoke the Access Overload Control (ACCOLC) system - apart from a 1km-square area around the Aldgate incident - which restricts mobile network access to the police, fire and ambulance... [05 Jun 2006]
Fire service to get £350m Airwave emergency radio system
News The Tetra-based Airwave network is currently available to all police forces in England and is mid-way through a £390m rollout to ambulance trusts, which expect to have the service up and running by next year. [31 Mar 2006]
Shaping the Storage Landscape With an Information Lifecycle Management Approach
White Paper Somerset County Council provides service and support that touches all aspects of daily life covering education, healthcare, social services and law enforcement, transportation, planning, fire and ambulance services, and a host of others. [02 Feb 2006]
Firefighters warm to Airwave contract
News As well as listing the Highways Agency and the MoD among its customers, the O2 subsidiary signed a similar deal with the ambulance service and completed a £2.9bn radio rollout for the police earlier this year. [11 Nov 2005]
Cops launch 999 text hotline for deaf
News Other emergency services in the area, including ambulance, coastguard and fire brigades, are linked to the system, which was also designed for speech impaired people. A spokesman for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) said: "The deaf... [19 Oct 2005]
O2 wins £390m deal for ambulance digital radios
News O2 Airwave has won a £390m contract to provide a new national digital radio and communications system for the UK ambulance service. The 13-year Airwave contract with the Department of Health (DoH) will see O2 replace the existing analogue radio... [19 Jul 2005]
£2.9bn police radio system completed on time
News The government is also in the middle of procuring new national radio networks for the Fire and Ambulance services and wants all the emergency forces' communications to be interoperable. The Airwave system has not been entirely without problems... [01 Apr 2005]
