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Press Releases 2018-2020
July 2020
There are now 140 sites converted to WBB.
The Cloud service has now been operating for just on 12 months. It has
for this period a 100% uptime and availability.
April 2020
Birdy 4G devices are now being trialed in South West region in parallel
with existing WBB messaging.
March 2020
The COVID 19 has put a stop to maintenance visits. Sites requiring
repairs have equipment sent to site and repaired locally.
Jan 2020
MTEL has created a new WBB Gateway to back up the current Telstra based
VPN service. The gateway will provide some diversity from the VPN service.
The new Maxon 4G modems are now the default modem for the WBB systems.
July 2019
MTEL operation has now been moved to the cloud to provide redundancy and
geographical diversity of operation.
April 2019
ISDN picocell sites are now updated to WBB.
March 2019
ISDN picocell sites are now being targeted for replacement after Telstra
announced the retirement of these networks.
All remaining 25 sites will be upgraded by the end of April. Sites are
mostly in the South West and Central regions.
November 2018
Trials of the new PURC Encoder 2U rack mounted have started. This device
interfaces to older style PURC format transmitters. The encoder uses the
base PC2070 Paging Encoder and incorporates an analog interface to generate
PURC format before the POCSAG transmission.
October 2018
Trials of the Birdy 3G two way pager have started on the North Coast
September 2018
Mt Mackay, Childers, Wallumbilla, Goombungee, Taroom, Howard, Thursday
Island, and Jandowea added to the WBB networks as a result of maintenance issues and
upgrades to new sites.
May 2018
MTEL Connect V2.7 has been released to fix android problems.
Android 8.0 was released causing significant changes to the notification
system.
V2.7 conforms to the new standard.
May 2018
MTEL Connect V2.6 has been released to fix android problems.
The APP was re-registering when it lost the interconnect service. This
typically happen when the mobile moved between Wi-Fi networks and from Wi-Fi
networks and mobile data. The re-registering has been removed and a log
entry is added to indicate the internet service is disconnected.
April 2018
Charleville, Goondiwindi, Glenden, Goombungee, Childers added to the WBB networks as a result of maintenance issues and
upgrades to new sites.
February 2018
MTEL Connect V2.5 has finally been released.
Quilpie, Gin Gin, Sarina, Wondai, added to the WBB networks as a result of maintenance issues and
upgrades to new sites.
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