TETRA technology is making a second push into the North American market after a failed attempt about eight years ago. Several groups of U.S. mission-critical communications users are showing interest in TETRA technology, a trunked radio standard developed in Europe that has been blocked from deployment in the United States because of intellectual property rights (IPR).
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