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RIM and Airwave vie to cut police paperwork
News Airwave is keen to expand on its existing role of providing voice services to the emergency services, aiming to also take advantage of the increasing need for secure mobile data provision. I have explored with Airwave the practicality of an officer...
[February 20, 2008, 10:27]
London Assembly criticises Airwave delays
News A report into the 7/7 bombings in London two years ago has raised fresh concerns about the capacity and coverage of the Airwave emergency services digital-radio network in the capital. The latest London Assembly 7/7 committee report says, despite...
[August 16, 2007, 16:43]
Private equity snaps up O2 Airwave
News After months of speculation, private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave, the mobile operator's emergency services digital radio network. Guardian Digital Communications will take over Airwave. Airwave has traditionally made a business from...
[April 23, 2007, 11:48]
Who makes the calls for Airwave?
Leader With Airwave's acquisition by Macquarie from Telefonica, our police, ambulance and fire brigade communications have taken another step from their days as a division of the Home Office towards an existence as a pure investment vehicle.
[April 25, 2007, 17:19]
HMRC signs Airwave deal in fight against fraud
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal-investigation and detection teams with the Airwave digital radio system. A control room will be established and the contract will allow 4,000 handsets to connect to the...
[February 14, 2008, 7:47]
The Seven Deadly Sins of Deploying Wireless: ProCurve and AirWave Deliver a Comprehensive Solution
White Papers IT organizations often rush into wireless networking, putting together pieces in an ad hoc fashion. As you may already know from personal experience, this can lead to serious problems down the road when you add users, applications and more elements...
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
Aruba to buy 'Switzerland of network management'
News Aruba Networks is to buy the multi-vendor network management company AirWave. AirWave — not to be confused with O2 Airwave, the company behind the UK emergency services' communications — provides wireless-network management software for use with...
[January 9, 2008, 12:00]
Digital emergency radio network raises health fears
News The"Airwave" system -- which will be rolled out by BT -- is due to go live in 2005 and is already being tested by the Lancashire Police Constabulary. Airwave uses Tetra (terrestrial trunk radio system), a European standard that transmits at...
[July 13, 2001, 12:10]
O2 prices force police to rethink vocab
News Emergency services across the UK use a radio system called Airwave, which is based on the Tetra standard and supplied by O2. It claimed the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) has been forced to produce a CD called "Airwave Speak" to...
[February 21, 2007, 8:48]
Wireless deployment at enterprise level
News In July 2006, Aruba Networks and AirWave Wireless announced they were teaming up to provide support by AirWave's Wireless Management Suite to Aruba's APs, making it possible to centrally manage both legacy standalone APs and modern "light" APs...
[September 14, 2006, 15:40]
Olympics digital radio system gets funding boost
News It has announced a £39m investment increase the capability of the Airwave system, enabling it to cater for thousands more users from police, fire and ambulance services. Under a contract agreed by the National Policing and Improvement Agency and...
[November 4, 2009, 7:33]
Air Semiconductor gets snappy with GPS
Blog Airwave-1 knows how to store and maintain a lot of this information and keep it up to date even with limited reception. A group of old industry lags with a serious track record in GPS and radio chippery, Air has cooked up Airwave-1, a design that...
[March 10, 2009, 12:26]
ProCurve Networking Case Study: HP
White Papers A serious evaluation of all available options led to its choice of the ProCurve Networking by HP Wireless Access Point 420 along with the AirWave Management Platform as the best solution for HP's needs.
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
UK-wide mobile WiMax rollout unlikely, says backer
News The fire service has very good voice communications with Airwave, but Airwave doesn't have the capacity to deliver video and 3G isn't suitable for the [video] quality. Mobile WiMax could serve a substantial niche market in the UK, but is unlikely...
[July 22, 2009, 11:00]
2012 Olympics may see Tube mobile coverage
News The emergency services have a Tetra comms network on the Underground, supplied by Airwave. However in a recent interview with silicon.com, Airwave chief executive Richard Bobbett said the economics of a commercial mobile Tube rollout fall between...
[June 18, 2009, 9:17]
Police and military 'battling over spectrum'
News The deal is with O2 Airwave, the secure radio network set up by O2. Emergency services are being preventing from making full use of their equipment because the military is denying them access to key radio spectrum, Motorola claimed this week.
[November 23, 2006, 14:51]
O2 burns bright with latest financials
News O2 attributed the company's growth to new customer acquisitions in its three core businesses — Germany, Ireland and the UK — as well as in its Airwave business, which has recently won a number of digital radio contracts with the UK emergency...
[November 15, 2005, 9:30]
Exclusive: Nokia video phones next year
News The DTI is preparing to begin airwave auctions for UMTS in February. "Next year we will have third generation wireless applications," said UK press officer Vicky Fox. It'll be almost like a Psion, but a mobile phone as well.
[October 29, 1998, 14:57]
Wednesday
Blog And now it turns out that hundreds of coppers are ringing in sick -- hopefully not with their mobiles -- because their new Airwave radio system is 'making them ill'. Wednesday 24/07/02 Wireless and health scares are the bane of my life.
[July 26, 2002, 14:40]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News The police communicate using a mixture of propietary systems from companies including Airwave, Blackberry and Orange. Police data systems should be based on open-source software, according to a senior member of the Association of Chief Police...
[June 23, 2009, 16:45]
