About the author

Phil Kidner is chief executive officer of the TETRA Association, whose members include more than 150 organizations around the world. His main responsibilities are to promote the TETRA standard and its benefits of security, resilience and interoperability, and to manage its evolution to ensure that the needs of all users are met.

Phil joined the TETRA Association in April 2006 from the UK Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), now the National Policing Improvement Agency. Having originally arrived at PITO as a seconded police officer – he retired from the police service in 2003 after 30 years’ service – he has in-depth experience of all stages of major TETRA project implementation, from initial specification through procurement and implementation to service management. He was involved in the UK’s Airwave programme from its inception in 1994. 

Phil formerly represented PITO on the TETRA Association Operator User Forum, is a past president of BAPCO (the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officers) and he chaired the system specification group of Project MESA, an international partnership between ETSI and the US Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) addressing future mobile broadband communications.