The current system will serve 10,000 digital radio terminals (phone handsets).

The system utilizes base stations, deployable, container-based communications modules serving an area at a range of 25 km. The TETRAPOL bw communications system will enable the Bundeswehr to deliver mobile voice and data communication to deployed forces, in a secure and fail-safe network at all tactical communication levels. The €55 million procurement project includes the delivery of 30 mobile, fully autonomous digital radio systems for out-of-area operations by the end of 2007. The TETRAPOL bw system will support German Army forces in out-of-area operations. Unlike commercial phone services, the TETRAPOL system utilizes the TETRA standard, designed to serve law enforcement and first responders. TETRAPOL is a military communications system serving subscribers over a large area, similar to a commercial cellular (mobile phone) network. EADS Secure Networks has started to deliver the TETRAPOL bw to the German Army (Bundeswehr).