In addition to working with Britain's Public Safety organisations, Arqiva serve's many large central and local Government bodies, providing a wide range of services including turnkey communications systems, telecoms networks, facilities management and maintenance and support for radio communications systems.

What singles us out as a suitable partner for Government organisations is our breadth of geography and capability. Operating on both a national and regional scale, Arqiva is offers the combined communications and IT expertise that is becoming essential as technologies converge.

Arqiva's public safety division manages a technical assessment facility on behalf of the Home Office and PITO (Police Information Technology Organisation), testing EMC compliance between vehicle equipment and radios to ensure the effective performance of both legacy and TETRA radios for the UK's police forces. We also manage a communications equipment catalogue as part of a framework agreement for the HM Prison Service.

While Britain's emergency services are moving to digital technology, many customers in Government and commercial network organisations are upgrading to modern analogue radio systems using the well-proven technology - PMR (Private Mobile Radio). This can be a highly cost-effective option for an organisation to build new features into its business plan while keeping the network under complete control.