“TOWARDS A BROADBAND FUTURE” The TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG)

1. TETRA & Critical Communications in Hungary • 6th Professional Mobile Communications Workshop • Budapest, April 2013 “TOWARDS A BROADBAND FUTURE” The TCCA’sCritical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) Tony Gray Board Member, TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA) Chairman, TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) Regional Business Director P3 communications GmbH

2. Taking the broadband agenda forward • The TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is working with other stakeholder groups worldwide to: • drive the standardisation of future common, global, mobile broadband technology solutions for Critical Comms users. • lobby regulators etc. for appropriate - & as far as possible harmonised - spectrumfor deployment of future Critical Comms broadband networks. • Thus the CCBG’s goals are to: • enable all Critical Comms users to access their information systems, apps. etc. reliably & at broadband speeds on their professional mobile deviceswherever they are & whenever they have the need. • ensure that future Critical Comms broadband solutions meet the particular needs of Critical Comms usersjust as reliably as today’s voice & narrowband data services are delivered by current technologies (e.g. TETRA).

3. Some key issues… • Technology: can LTE infrastructures & services be made adequately reliable, resilient & available in practice for Critical Mobile use? • all things are possible with the application of sufficient resources… • Spectrum: can regulators be persuaded to assign enough, & in suitable bands, for Critical Mobile BB services to be operated in? • thus far only in North America (700 MHz) & Australia (800 MHz)… • Budgets: can administrations, politicians, funds-holders, etc. be convinced of the value of investment in Critical Mobile BB services? • hence will delivering such services prove financially & practically viable? • Delivery:what are the available options & relative pro’s & con’s? • e.g. resource/service sharing with commercial operators, MVNO models, etc?

4. Stakeholder collaboration • CCBG participants include: • user organisations, governments, operators, standards & regulatory bodies, equipment manufacturers & suppliers, consultants, etc. • all members & partner organisations of the TCCA are entitled to participate • The list of CCBG’s collaborative & cooperative relationships with other stakeholder groups globally is continually growing: • UIC (European railways) • E-UTC (European utilities) • PSC-E (European public safety) • NPSTC & NIST (USA) • CITIG & CATA (Canada) • APCO Global (e.g. Australasia) • and so on...

5. CCBG participants Over 60 participating organisations Representative range of user types

6. CCBG external relationships Canada APCO Global e.g. Australasia USA APCO CITIG NIST CSS 3GPP NPSTC CATA International Marketing Group Standards OUA Applications WG TCCA ETSI CCBG SFPG Technical Forum Spectrum Coordination Transport Group Europe EU / EC PSC-E LEWP of JHA Council DG CONNECT RSCOM Spectrum Political FM 49 Research Bodies CEPT/ECC WG FM

7. CCBG structure Internal TCCA WG’s & external partners liaison

8. The Strategic Case “WHY CMB?” “What’s the value?”

9. Technology standardisation • Aimed at including support of fundamentally requiredfeatures for critical comms applications in future standards releases, e.g. for: • Group working • Direct mode • Resilience & security • Speech as well as data services

10. 3GPP Standards Progress WIDs! • ProSe & GCSE-LTE accepted as Work Item Descriptions (WIDs) included in 3GPP LTE R12 • The hard work has started...!

11. CCBG White Paper • Information & guidelines for users, operators & others considering implementing mission critical mobile broadband services. • Sets out predicted timeframe for availability of suitable standards & equipment. • Outline roadmap for LTE as a technology evolution for TETRA & other existing mission critical systems. • Downloadtoday at: www.tandcca.com/Library/Documents/CCBGMissionCriticalMobileBroadbandwhitepaper2013.pdf

12. A service evolution continuum Standardised services & applications (incl. control room) Cloud - based Applications including Control Room Applications • Single sign-on services (security) • Communications services - including PMR/LMR applications • Subscriber & group management, group calls, etc. applications, , Subscribers & group management, Group calls) TETRA, P25, etc. PMR/LMR networks Non Mission Critical data (commercial LTE) Mission Critical Data (Private LTE) Mission Critical Voice (Private LTE) Upgrade Learn Build Migrate 1 2 4 3 Mission Critical V+D services until LTE readiness & maturity Using commercial 3G/4G carriers Strategic: requires spectrum for private LTE TIME / STAGE

13. CCBG in the news & on show • TETRA Today report • Interview @ PMR Expo ’12, Cologne • Telecoms.com interview • ASTRID (Belgium) ‘SWITCH’ magazine interview (in French & Dutch!) • 3GPP White Paper – ‘Public Safety’ • VIRVE (Finland) magazine interview • Workshops & presentations at:

14. Hungarian partners… Join & participate! Work with us “Towards a Broadband Future”!

15. Thanks Q&A Tony Gray Chairman, TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group Regional Business Director P3 communications GmbH email:tony.gray@p3-group.com tel: +49 151 276 54501 www.tandcca.com/assoc/page/18100 Find TCCA also on: LinkedIn Facebook www.facebook.com/tandcca Twitter @tandcca YouTube www.youtube.com/user/tandcca