Germany’s “no island solutions” message for mission-critical communications
Germany’s “no island solutions” message for mission-critical communications is just as relevant for Australia and New Zealand.
In both countries, public safety agencies already operate across multiple jurisdictions, multiple networks, and multiple operational models. During large incidents, agencies don’t get to choose which side of a state border or district boundary an event occurs on.
That’s why Public Safety Mobile Broadband cannot become a collection of disconnected agency projects, local optimisations or vendor-specific deployments.
In Australia, the challenge is amplified by geography and the scale of multi-state operations. In New Zealand, the smaller market means fragmentation can become even more expensive and operationally difficult to sustain over time.
The underlying capability needs to behave as a coherent national ecosystem, even if delivery involves multiple agencies, operators and suppliers.
The reality is that interoperability is not something you bolt on later.
It has to be designed in from the start.