Mission-Critical Communication (MCC) refers to reliable communications for safety, security or emergency crisis management and prevention, where lives and environmental or social damage are at stake. OMDIA research in 2022 identifies four major trends for future MCC (refers to as “the next-gen Mission-Critical Communications”), which are:

1) Wide-scale emergencies demonstrate the need to reexamine MC Communications, which are essential for national security and emergency preparedness.  

2) Because of the world’s increasing complexity today, MC Communications technology is forced to go beyond voice and rely on new sources of information and multimedia communication.

3) The breadth and scale of the hyper-connectivity revolution worldwide have been shaping modern society, thanks to radical technology offered by service operators at increasing speed, with groundbreaking platforms brought to market by internet and social media giants.

4) In a digitally transformed Industry4.0 era, CPS-based MC Communications will open up the potential to change public safety from reactive to proactive by incorporating more critical sensors and infusing them with new levels of intelligence.

The four trends converge to build the next-gen MC Communications. However, the new expansions will not come at the expense of PMR, the voice continues to play an essential role and narrowband digitalization is still ongoing in MC Communications.