Control
The Turbo Dispatch Standards Group used to meet on average two or three times a year. Its brief was to “Maintain a common standard for message and data formats to be used in electronic data communications between host computers and/or data terminals in fixed/mobile environments”.
All major motoring organisations send representatives and selected recovery operators also attend. All changes and additions to the standard are discussed and have to be agreed by those present at the meeting. As there is little commercial advantage to any organisation (an improvement for one will normally also benefit the others), there is usually a large amount of agreement. Copies of the standard are available from MTT or public domain sources.
In 2010 BT Transcomm announced the closure of the Mobitex Network in the UK.
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