In March 2020, Nordic Telecom team has issued an open RFP tender for terminals for Critical Communication.
Key objective of this RFP is to procure operation ready, state-of-the-art, rugged hand terminal with native LTE 410-430 MHz (3GPP band 87) support, specifically designed for push-to-talk/video type of services, with Android OS and in general designed around broadband critical communication needs and requirements of the 21st century.

For the past several years NTS participated in several activities of the Czech Republic’s MoI focused on the preparation and fulfilment of the long-term strategy (initially driven by both end of support for Tetrapol TDM and 700 MHz auction) for the mobile communication of the PPDR forces. The most recent activity (finished 12/2019) was the preliminary market consultation  focused on the use of LTE radio access networks in the 410 – 430 MHz and 450 – 470 MHz (hereinafter referred to also as “LTE 400 MHz”) for the purposes of CZ’s PPDR forces and the NTS was the only subject that provided demonstration in live network environment and in full scope. NTS demonstrated its dedicated LTE 410-430 MHZ network centric BB-PPDR solution including 3GPP MCX communication (mission critical PTT / video / data) provided by Nokia group communication platform and using our prototype rugged LTE 410-430 MHz hand terminal with GCT chipset and Android OS.
The deadline for interested vendors to participate in the RfP is 30^th April 2020. The whole scope of RfP can be found here.