Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Good news for Sepura: FCC supports TETRA in US


The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently ruled in support of Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) in the United States. This is great news for digital radio specialist Sepura plc, one of many such companies eyeing a slice of the lucrative US market pie.

Sepura believes that the FCC announcement is good news for numerous organizations in the business, industry, and land transportation sectors. Those organizations have been contemplating switching to TETRA digital radio communications, a standard that has been adopted in more than 125 countries.

TETRA is a spectrally efficient digital technology that accomodates four voice (and data) paths in each 25 kHz channel to achieve 6.25 kHz voice path efficiency. This allowed TETRA to met and exceeded the 12.5 kHz voice path “narrowbanding” efficiency standard set by the FCC for the 450-470 MHz segment of the UHF band requirements. The FCC was also satisfied with TETRA’s interference protection ability.

According to Sepura's CEO, Gordon Watling, the FCC ruling reassures potential US customers regarding the benefits of TETRA digital communication solutions. Sepura, the TETRA+ Critical Communications Association, and its worldwide partners have been offering the proven, open communications standard for global customers. Now the 9 million professional mobile radio users in the US market will also be able to enjoy the same quality of communications and productivity.

In addition to being an expert on the TETRA standard, Sepura offers mobiles/gateways, repeaters, and other wireless communications products, such as its widely-used STP8000 and SRG3000 series. It also offers 3T infrastructure solutions.


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