Local Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) have been using wide area paging over the last few decades as a means of primarily contacting or mobilising officers and some crews. There have been 2 main providers — Vodafone Paging and PageOne. These are currently the only 2 traditional national paging suppliers in the UK with any market share.

The decision was taken that given the cessation of Vodafone's service this was the opportune time to assess our needs and seek a different solution that would meet our requirements both now and into the future.

The decision has therefore been taken to move to an app based mobilising system.

Mobilising App for the Fire Service.