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Police paying over the odds for radio network
News The Airwave system was originally intended for the three main emergency services, fire, police and ambulance, to use simultaneously - delivering lower costs, and saving lives in disaster situations by... [11 Apr 2002]
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... [04 Jul 2006]
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... [16 Aug 2007]
mmO2 police profits come under the microscope
News In a meeting this week, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) questioned members of the PITO on why mmO2 was able to demand a 17 per cent profit margin on the 19-year Airwave contract, which will provide the police with a nationwide... [25 Apr 2002]
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... [19 Jul 2005]
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... [27 Nov 2007]
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... [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,... [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]
£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"... [27 Dec 2006]
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... [19 Oct 2005]
Emergency services digital radio mess
Comment The fire service has been facing ageing and obsolete equipment for some time yet only after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the US did politicians realise that the police, fire and... [03 Jul 2003]
£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... [01 Apr 2005]
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]
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... [05 Feb 2007]
