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In December 2019, in recognition of the need to accelerate the availability of certification solutions for the LTE mission critical (MC) industry, GCF and TCCA established a joint task force to set up a  programme fit for future growth in the field.

With applications, infrastructure, and devices provided by many different vendors - standards are essential to ensuring interoperability.  However, ensuring that services will work becomes even more vital in the context of mission critical services; where lives literally depend on it. In such circumstances, it is not enough to implement the standards – there must also be a method to assess compliance to them. 

By establishing certification for mission critical products, the industry intends to follow the success of the GCF programme in the mobile sector (see figure 1) to get certified equipment in to the hands of emergency workers.

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