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PARTNER FOCUS

ENABLING OPERATIONAL

MOBILITY FOR EUROPEAN

PUBLIC SAFETY RESPONDERS

By David Lund, President, Public Safety Communication
Europe (PSCE) Forum

2021 will be an important year for pan-European operational mobility as a foundational communication capability for public safety is
delivered by mobile broadband connectivity. Full operational mobility will make disaster response and recovery more effective, improve
coordination between responders and put their mobile capabilities beyond the increasing sophistication and internationalization of
organised crime.

BROADWAY PRE-COMMERCIAL PROCUREMENT
– COORDINATED BY 3GPP PARTNER PSCE

The EU funded BroadWay project brings together a Group of The BroadWay Group of Procurers are drawn from 11 European
Procurers to jointly source innovation activities, in line with the countries, each holding a national responsibility to provide
BroadWay ‘Common challenge for operational mobility’. The communication services to the responders in Belgium, Czech Republic,
challenge’s activities are concentrated in the following areas: Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands,
Romania and Spain.
• Pan-European: Operational Mobility, Governance,
Architecture, Availability, Security Partners ASTRID (Belgium), French Ministry of Interior, Erillisverkot
• Practitioner Evaluation (Finland) and the National Police of the Netherlands are 3GPP
members and are active contributors to the Mission Critical Standards
• Technical Validation
through 3GPP SA working groups SA1 (Requirements) and SA6 (MC
• Application Eco-System Applications) in particular.
• Device Eco-System
Those BroadWay project members play a major role in bringing a vital
• Innovation Eco-system understanding of standardisation of Mission Critical services and the
• Standardised solutions related LTE and 5G specifications into the procurement arena.
INTERCONNECTION OF NATIONAL SYSTEMS

The BroadWay Pan-European architecture objective addresses Each country across Europe is planning its national system in
the necessity to support the national security and sovereignty of their own timeframe. As national systems deploy, they can offer
each country involved. Solutions to the BroadWay challenge are operational mobility capability by interconnecting via BroadNet.
therefore driven towards a system of systems approach. National
Mission Critical Mobile Broadband networks will interconnect,
but each country retains control of its own network for its national
responders.
Notable activity on a national level sees partners Erillisverkot and
the French Ministry of Interior actively procuring their national
mission critical networks in 2020 and 2021.
• The first milestones of the deployment in France will be the
Rugby World Cup in 2023 and the Olympic games in Paris in
2024.
• In Finland, procurement is ongoing with mission critical services
to be provided to users in the 2022-2025 timeframe.
• Astrid already offers prioritised mobile broadband services for
responders in Belgium through their Blue Light Mobile service.

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