Page One secures Cabinet Office approval
PageOne secures exclusive agreement with the Cabinet Office to provide the only 2-way pagers for privileged access for emergency services responders
PageOne, one of the UK's leading provider of mobile messaging solutions to the public and enterprise sectors, today announced that its 2-way pagers will be exclusively MTPAS (Mobile Telecommunication Privileged Access Scheme) enabled for all Category 1 and 2 Responders.
The Cabinet Office-run scheme ensures that all Category 1 or 2 Responders in an organisation that use PageOne 2-way paging will be MTPAS-enabled after a special SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is inserted into the pager.
MTPAS is invoked in the event of a major incident, allowing privileged access to the mobile network for Category 1 and 2 Responders. To prevent cell overload, the number of MTPAS enabled mobile phones within each Category 1 and 2 organisation is limited, meaning that not all Category 1 and 2 Responders will receive an MTPAS enabled SIM for their phone. As PageOne's 2-Way pager uses the PageOne wide area paging network for out-going messages and status and reply messages use very little data (either SMS or GPRS), PageOne can provide all Category 1 and 2 Responders in an organisation with an MTPAS-enabled SIM.
"We have welcomed the PageOne 2-way pager onto the Scheme as it gives the first responder community a new and innovative way to enhance resilient communications for effective emergency response," said Tom Swarbrigg, Privilege Access Scheme Manager, the Cabinet Office. "The fact that the PageOne 2-way pager uses so little GSM air-time means that we have been able to extend the use of privileged access to all in both Category 1 and 2 Responder Organisations, so in times of incident the widest possible benefits can be realised by users under the MTPAS Scheme".
