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Future Outcomes of NCCGR
State Government’s within Australia, along with the Commonwealth, consider that the use of common spectrum is an important first step in delivering national interoperability. Other steps include the need to ensue that future communication systems are compatible across jurisdictions and are complemented with appropriate operational protocols.
The Commonwealth Government is currently working with all State Governments to formalise the long term protection of the 458.3375 – 459.9375 MHz band and 467.8375 – 469.4374 MHz band (known as the 64 channel block). This will ultimately provide jurisdictions with the certainly required to conduct long term planning to maintain and/or migrate their relevant police and emergency services communications capability within this common allocation of frequencies.
A key outcome of the NCCGR will be the development of a national harmonised strategic mobile radio plan for government radio networks. This will ultimately result in agencies communicating with a high level of horizontal integration (agencies communicating across jurisdiction borders) as well as delivering vertical integration within jurisdictions (separate agencies being able to talk directly to each other within their jurisdiction).
It is highly anticipated that these outcomes will also lead to an open and competitive commercial environment, enabling vendors access to previously closed environments, enabling jurisdictions to purchase products with more flexible functionality at competitive prices than is currently the case.
