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RSS tetra in newsManx police to use covert Tetra handsets
News The Isle of Man is deploying 'covert' Motorola Tetra handsets to its undercover police and customs officers. The Isle of Man government uses a Tetra digital radio network, similar to the Airwave service on the mainland, for communications across a... [10 Mar 2008]
O2 flogs Airwave unit for £2bn
News The Tetra network covers 99 per cent of the UK and now has more than 220,000 users. After months of speculation private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave, the mobile operator's emergency services digital radio network. [19 Apr 2007]
£390m ambulance radio upgrade rollout begins
News Tetra radios are to be installed in rapid response vehicles and motorcycles as well as ambulances. Over 18,000 Tetra radio terminals will be installed, which the Department of Health (D0H) said is the largest single deployment of Tetra radios... [27 Dec 2006]
Tetra Pak brings BPO to Poland and China
News Food packaging company Tetra Pak has signed a seven-year business process outsourcing (BPO) deal with IT services company Capgemini to move a range of financial and accounting services to China and Poland. [18 Dec 2006]
Scots ambulances get £48m Airwave
News They will equip the ambulances and Patient Transport Service vehicles with Tetra radios. The Scottish Ambulance Service has signed a £48.2m contract for the implementation of the Airwave digital communications system. [19 Jul 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]
£2.9bn police radio system completed on time
News The Tetra-based Airwave network provided by mobile operator O2 is aimed at providing the emergency services with a single high-speed encrypted voice and data communications system that cannot be intercepted by criminals scanning police radio... [01 Apr 2005]
Police to use Bluetooth to access intelligence records
News The lack of data-friendly handsets for the police's £2.9bn Tetra digital radio system means officers will need to use Bluetooth to connect portable devices such as PDAs and tablet PCs to their network. [25 May 2004]
mmO2 plans a boom year
News Green MEPs early this week called for a ban on the erection of Tetra masts - the foundation of the new network - for health reasons. Late today, Airwave issued a statement to the effect that there was no evidence that Tetra was harmful to human... [31 Mar 2004]
Nuclear police to get secure radio network
News Health concerns raised by some police officers over the Airwave Terrestrial Trunked Radio (Tetra) handsets last year forced the Home Office to set up a group to monitor the effects of the handsets on the brain.and the handset manufacturers deny... [09 Oct 2003]
Police brains subject of 15-year radiation study
News Home Office Minister Bob Ainsworth announced the investigation and backed the Tetra-based system, which has come in for criticism in the past, not least from the National Audit Office which has expressed concern about the project roll out. [23 May 2003]
British police say new radios hurt their brains
News Airwave works on the Tetra radio protocol (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) which transmits signals on the 17.6Hz frequency. Some scientist fear Tetra's radio frequency is dangerously close to the 16Hz rate that brain pulses travel on. [18 Jul 2002]
Sunk Dolphin swimming again
News Under the terms of the agreement, Inquam will take over Dolphin's UK TETRA network which provides national mobile radio services to 45,000 business subscribers. Inquam, a wireless network operator, has bought the business and some assets of... [12 Jun 2002]
Police paying over the odds for radio network
News Among other things, Airwave, which uses the Tetra standard, is encrypted, making it almost impossible for criminals to intercept police signals by scanning their radio frequencies. The failure in the UK to deliver a unified communication system for... [11 Apr 2002]
Dolphin swims into shark-infested 3G waters
News Dolphin offered business services on its Tetra network and Qualcomm believes it can use CDMA technology to offer '3G-on-the-cheap' voice and data services. Dolphin Telecom, currently in administration, could be rescued by US component maker Qualcomm. [23 Oct 2001]
