 Some of the payment was deferred to the following year and Macquarie were supporting the transaction.On 19 February 2016 Motorola Solutions announced it completed its acquisition of Airwave,

In April 2014, the government announced the "emergency services mobile communications program" (ESMCP) to migrate emergency services to a 4G based network to be called the "Emergency Services Network" (ESN).One of the intentions of this program is to switch from the private Airwave network, to an existing commercial network.