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TETRA’s love affair with the Asia-Pacific


TETRA is now in 125 countries, and already some 20 per cent of the radios in use are in the Asia region. Tim Guest reports on TETRA’s future (and a little of its recent past) in the East


This Chinese drummer at the 2010 TETRA


World Congress in Singapore highlighted the growing Asian focus in the TETRA community – and also helped to get the event off to a lively start


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f anyone needed convincing of the Asia-Pacific Region’s importance to the growth of TETRA, the global wanderings of the TETRA World Congress – to Hong


Kong in 2008 and Singapore in 2010 – give an indication as to how the TETRA Association (now the TCCA) has viewed the region. Between June 2007 and June 2008 the Asia-Pacific


market doubled to become, according to the association, the fastest-growing critical communications market in the world. Transportation alone accounted for 40 per cent of that market. At that time, Phil Kidner, chief executive of the association, said: “Te interest in TETRA technology is now coming from all regions of the world, but none more so than Asia, where the enthusiasm and speed of adoption is remarkable.” Looking now at the situation in the region, he believes


Phil Kidner in Singapore: “TETRA is here today in over 125 countries”, he said. “It has more functionality for voice and data than any other technology”


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that – despite the claims of the DMR community – the only mission-critical radio technologies are P25 and TETRA. “TETRA is here today in over 125 countries”, he emphasizes. “It has more functionality for voice and data than any other technology. You can touch it, feel it, kick it even!” He adds that he sees much of P25 as still “a promise to the


future”. And to claims that you need many more TETRA base stations to cover a particular area than P25, Kidner


TE TRA TODAY Issue 6 2012


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