SAN DIEGO—A standard to deliver LTE mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) capability that includes greater functionality than today’s land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems should be completed by the fall of 2016 at the latest, according to a U.S. official participating in the public-safety LTE standards effort.
Earlier this year, 3GPP—the organization that oversees the LTE standard—took the unusual step of creating a new working group, known as SA6, that is focused on developing an MCPTT standard for LTE, according to Andrew Thiessen, deputy program manager for Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR). MCPTT functionality is expected to be a key component of LTE Release 13.
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