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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]
News The NHS has commenced the rollout of the Airwave secure digital radio network to ambulance teams throughout England, starting with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST). Before we started using Airwave, it wasn't uncommon to have...
[24 Aug 2007]
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]
News Its recent contract wins include a £115m agreement to kit out London Underground, a £48m deal with the Scots Ambulance and a £32m contract with their Welsh counterparts. After months of speculation private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave...
[19 Apr 2007]
News The business has secured a number of large contracts of late, including a £115m deal with London Underground and a £48m agreement with the Scottish ambulance service. The sale of O2's Airwave unit may be some way off yet, according to the mobile...
[01 Mar 2007]
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]
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]
News The chairman of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Sigurd Reinton warned that the elderly and vulnerable should bear in mind that if paramedics have more information they will be able to offer the "best possible treatment".
[18 Dec 2006]
News The Scottish Ambulance Service has signed a £48.2m contract for the implementation of the Airwave digital communications system. Under the 10-year deal, O2 Airwave and SunGard Vivista will supply radio terminals to ambulance staff and integrated...
[19 Jul 2006]
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]
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]
News The lack of a digital radio network meant that many senior managers among the main emergency services, and the London Ambulance Service in particular, were forced to rely on using already overloaded mobile phone networks to communicate in the...
[05 Jun 2006]
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]
News It will use BT's N3 network, already being built for the NHS, to link up all of the county's hospitals, GP practices, the ambulance service and other offices. Essex NHS Strategic Health Authority (SHA) hopes to slash its networking costs with a...
[22 Mar 2006]
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]
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. Police on Merseyside have built a text messaging system for 250,000 people with...
[19 Oct 2005]
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]
News A lot of companies using the Appswing service, including Cambridgeshire ambulance crews, have field operatives who need to be able to access data on their network and send data back but that data must also be secure at all times as it is often...
[08 Jun 2005]
News Six of the seven resulted in police cautions and disciplinary action at work, while one paramedic from the Sussex Ambulance Service was sentenced to 100 hours community punishment last year. The NHS is investigating reports of paramedics selling...
[17 May 2005]
News Ambulances used by the Royal Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset NHS Ambulance Trusts will be fitted with GPRS tracking units, which will enable ambulance controllers to pinpoint the location of the vehicles using an application on their browsers.
[25 Apr 2005]
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