TCCA Working Groups
TCCA Working Groups are set up and managed by TCCA members, and report to the Association Chief Executive and Board.
Asia Regional Group
The Asia Regional Group encompasses North Asia (Japan, Korea, Greater China), South-East Asia (ASEAN) and South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh). The Group works to understand the landscape in respect to business and mission-critical communications in each of the nations within the region, including legal and regulatory, radio spectrum, cultural, geo-political and end-user use cases, and to foster opportunities for information exchange between members and with all mission critical stakeholders across the region including regional conference/workshop events (Critical Communications Asia, Critical Communications India), media and marketing, and external events where TCCA content or participation is feasible.
Broadband Industry Group (BIG)
The BIG facilitates mobile broadband vendor cooperation for the benefit of customers, focused on the development and promotion of global critical communications solutions that are built using 3GPP 4G LTE and 5G standardised technologies.
Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG)
The CCBG drives the development and adoption of common global mobile broadband standards and solutions for users who cooperate in a mission critical or business critical environment.
Future Technologies Group
This Group primarily considers emerging technologies, or novel use cases of existing or emerging technologies that are of potential interest to the community served by TCCA. For example, new or novel uses of 5G, trends in the transportation market such as vehicle connectivity, developments in the IOT world that may have impact or relevance on connectivity or data provision to critical communications users.
Interworking Function (IWF) Working Group
At the crossroads of moving from LMR systems like TETRA, P25 and GSM-R over to the broadband 3GPP world, an interface to facilitate the transition and co-existence between heterogenous systems is needed. The IWF Working Group will, in line with TCCA ideology, facilitate between parties a way forward to identify and later develop interworking functions.
Legal and Regulatory Working Group
The Legal and Regulatory Working Group focuses on the legal and regulatory issues and challenges related to the evolution from TETRA to broadband services for critical communications. The Working Group is open to governmental operators of critical communications networks.
Marketing
Our Marketing team develops and coordinates the integrated marketing communications activity of TCCA, positioning and raising the profile of the Association’s work through the events programme, collateral, media engagement and other market-facing activities. We work with the Association’s event partners to help define the content and direction of TCCA’s Critical Communications events.
Security & Fraud Prevention Group (SFPG)
The SFPG prepares and manages recommendations on use of encryption in critical communications networks, and controls access to restricted technical information.
Spectrum Working Group
The Spectrum Group is guided by the principles of harmonisation and efficient use of spectrum to meet the spectrum needs of critical communication users. Its objectives are to agree common positions related to radio spectrum matters, including recognising and securing the important role of narrowband PMR technologies and supporting the evolving user needs for enhanced broadband communications for both terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
Technical Forum
Among other responsibilities, this group converts the service overviews into profile and test documents which will be used for the Interoperability Testing and Certification process (IOP), and provides a key forum for knowledge exchange.
TETRA Industry Group (TIG)
TIG works to promote TETRA, develop the technology and advocate an evolutionary path towards future solutions for the mission critical communications market that TETRA serves, based on open standards. It develops expertise on the strengths of TETRA and LTE as competing, complementary or integrated solutions for this market.