Australia’s Public Safety Mobile Broadband (PSMB) Project taken another step forward

PSMB Proof of Concept (PoC) Contract was signed and announced through the Joint Media Statemen released by the Federal Minister for Emergency Management and the NSW Government Minister for Customer Service as per the following link and the attached media story:

https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/davidlittleproud/Pages/forward-movement-mobile-safety.aspx

The NSW Telco Authority has signed a contract with Nokia, along with partners TPG Telecom and Optus, to deliver the long-awaited multi-operator Public Safety Mobile Broadband proof of concept trial. The network will eventually replace current critical communications networks — mostly land mobile UHF radio – used by emergency services, which can’t support heavy data trafϐic and web-based applications.