04 Editor’s leer
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 nd 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 efcient 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 mark et 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 nds 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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