SNS Telecom & IT‘s latest research report indicates that annual spending on LTE and 5G NR-based public safety broadband infrastructure and devices will exceed $6.3 billion globally by the end of 2028 as nationwide mission-critical broadband deployments move from concept to delivery.
The market’s upward trajectory is coupled with realistic prospects of migration from LMR systems to 3GPP broadband technology across multiple national markets in the coming years. Western and Northern European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Finland and Sweden, are moving ahead with plans to migrate all public safety users from TETRA and Tetrapol systems to nationwide mission-critical 3GPP networks between 2028 and 2031. South Korea is an outlier, having carried out its transition much earlier due to the previous lack of a digital LMR network with nationwide coverage.
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