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There are many potential use cases for LTE Broadcast in mission critical communications.

LTE networks are now present in 189 countries, run by 580 operators and are accessible by around 60 per cent of the world’s population, so the infrastructure is there.Ĭompared to previous generation networks, spectral efficiency and data throughput are hugely increased in LTE networks, their geographical reach is now extensive and the problem of interconnectivity between radio networks is also removed when using LTE Broadcast to communicate mission critical information. The ubiquitous nature of LTE networks today means that they can take over responsibility for mission critical communications – and can also improve them. Emergency services and public safety agents must be able to use mission-critical data applications such as location services and exchange information about where people are at any particular moment, something that has until now been done largely using voice – but today LTE Broadcast provides additional means of communicating via a state-of-the-art mobile data network. Reliability and availability are the essential qualities of critical communications. They are also expensive as they lack economies of scale.

Until now emergency services communications have relied on radio networks like TETRA, but these always had limitations they are based on obsolete technology, narrow band and not able to carry information-rich or multimedia data. LTE Broadcast is the most advanced mobile ‘one to many’ communications system, and thanks to the rapid advancement of LTE mobile network technology, it can now be used for much more than ‘just’ delivering streamed video content to end-user devices.Ĭritical communications and emergency services are an area that is set to benefit from LTE Broadcast technology.

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