TIA’s TR-8 Standards Committee Issues Call for Interest on new Projects for Trunking Control Channel Messages and Remotely Activated Emergency

Stakeholders Invited to Contact TIA Regarding Participation.

Arlington VA. (May 09, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-8.10 Engineering Committee on Trunking and Conventional Control has issued a call for interest for document ANSI/TIA-102.AABC-E-1 initially titled “Trunking Control Channel Messages- Addendum 1” in the area defined by the following scope: “The main scope of this addendum proposes a more flexible use of the abbreviated format of the Status Update Request over the air message”; as well as for document TIA-102.AABC-E-2 initially titled ” Trunking Control Channel Messages – Addendum 2 – Remotely Activated Emergency” defined by the following scope: ” To specify Bit3 of the emergency alarm request message as the Remotely Activated Emergency flag.”

The stakeholders may include but are not limited to: Users and manufacturers of P25 equipment.

TIA is actively seeking participation in these projects from the user and general interest communities.

For more information about TR-8 and how to participate in standards development with TIA, contact Victoria Mitchell at standards-process@tiaonline.org.

A major function of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the writing and maintenance of voluntary industry standards and specifications. These activities are carried out by the volunteer members of TIA engineering committees. On the public engineering committee pages, users will find recent meeting reports, agendas and notices for upcoming meetings, as well as links to some of the most popular standards from each committee. TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).