In terms of business developments at this year's Tetra World Congress, Sepura’s acquisition of 3T Communications, the Austrian manufacturer of Tetra infrastructure, highlighted a significant shift in strategy for a company historically associated with handsets and applications. 3T Communications’ speciality has been on small to mid-size Tetra systems predominantly for customers in the commercial sector and Sepura sees this business segment growing strongly as the worldwide Tetra market develops beyond its public safety origins to include sectors such as the chemical industries, oil and gas and utilities.

Sepura also used the event to formally celebrate delivery of its one-millionth radio, in a geographically appropriate context – an STP8000 for its customer the Qatar Ministry of Interior. Gordon Watling, chief executive of Sepura said, “We delivered our 500?000th radio in 2008 and it’s a remarkable milestone, given the considerably shorter time its taken for us to deliver the second 500?000th radio, demonstrating our impressive levels of growth”.

Sepura also announced STProtect, an innovative indoor tracking and location solution primarily targeted at lone worker safety and protection across a wide range of sectors and interworking with its STP8000 and STP9000 series handportable radios.