FRANKFURT, Germany -- Sepura, the leading TETRA radio supplier, announced today that it has delivered its 250,000th radio. Whilst the largest supplier of TETRA radios to its home market, the UK, this notable milestone also marks a doubling of Sepura deliveries to international markets, each year for the last three years. Sepura is the fastest growing supplier to the international TETRA market.
The 250,000th radio was delivered to Russian Railways, the world’s largest transportation company, responsible for almost 80% of Russia’s rail transportation network. Sepura radios are used on the Moscow rail network for inter-train communication between drivers, as well as for communication with maintenance staff and station duty officers. The radios will also support critical data transmission between trains and the rail network’s automated-control systems.
Sepura is supplying SRH3500 hand-held radios and SRM2000 mobile units as part of the contract won by one of its Russian partners, Globalsvyaz.
Graham Matthews, Managing Director of Sepura commented, “This is a landmark delivery for Sepura and for the TETRA industry. The TETRA market is now mature and fast growing. Sepura is now the second largest supplier of TETRA radios. We have a longstanding relationship with Russian Railways and have been supplying TETRA radios since 2003. Therefore, it is particularly pleasing that our 250,000th TETRA radio has been delivered to them.
Dmitry Alpatov, Deputy General Manager at Globalsvyaw commented, “When Russian Railways first undertook a huge programme of modernisation in February 2003, Sepura was the only supplier of TETRA radios in the 450 to 470 MHz range, the Government’s approved frequency. The radios supplied over the years have enabled us to not only improve our efficiency, but also increase our data transmission capabilities. In addition, they are interoperable with the many different TETRA infrastructure types that we use.”
In a separate release:
FRANKFURT, Germany -- BMW AG chooses Sepura TETRA radios for its Test Tracks sites in Germany, Sweden and France. The radios are part of a complete digital mobile communication solution being provided by 3T Communications AG - wholly owned by Frequentis AG - to the world-leading German car manufacturer. The installation of the TETRA communications system will be completed in November 2005.
The test tracks replicate a diverse range of road conditions and are used to test different features of cars and motorbikes with the aim of improving quality, performance and safety. One of the fundamental requirements of BMW was to be able to accurately track vehicles by identifying their exact position at very short time intervals. A vehicle under test can reach speeds as high as 300km/h and test engineers often need to be able to locate up to 100 vehicles within 5.1 seconds.
Sepura will supply TETRA hand-held radios with its fully-integrated and ultra-sensitive award winning sGPS™ device to meet this requirement.
Roger Dowling, Deputy Managing Director for Sepura commented “We are proud to be associated with the prestigious BMW brand. This is another endorsement of our sGPS™ device which has been proven in independent tests to be the best TETRA GPS unit in the world”.
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