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February 2020 VOLUME 27 ISSUE 2
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04 Editor’s le er 06 Who, what, where
Ofcom gets a new chief executive; the National Infrastructure Commission says progress on mobile connectivity on the railways has stalled
08 News analysis
Western nations are trying to find a way to give ‘high-risk’ equipment vendors such as Huawei some role in their 5G networks, without jeopardising relationships with the USA
10 The big interview Cradlepoint CEO George Mulhern talks to
Land Mobile about enabling mobile widearea LTE networks, eliminating wires, and the new functionalities SD-WANs can bring
13 Unified communications Organisations want to extend radio networks beyond coverage areas and combine them with other voice, data and video technologies on one seamless platform for more efficient and joinedup working
16 Improving cellular coverage Simon Frumkin, CEO of the Freshwave
Group, explains why he thinks the company can deliver indoor and outdoor 3G/4G coverage solutions by bringing all the necessary parties together
18 Technology for learning The education sector is increasingly deploying more sophisticated Wi-Fi solutions to aid learning and is using a mix of mobile phones, two-way radio and PoC for voice comms
21 In the market for…radio maintenance contracts The kind of aftercare solutions organisations want for their radio systems largely depends on how critical communications are to the business, as Simon Creasey finds out
24 Products
The budget-friendly Avigilon H5M outdoor camera
26 60 seconds with…
Transport for London’s Thomas Brewster, who helped with the organisation’s switchover to DMR and its recent PoC implementation
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