AIRWAVE SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  -23.4%

  £416,040,000 → £318,695,000

• Cash

  -96.2%

  £7,532,000 → £285,000

• Net assets

  +135.8%

  -£28,319,000 → £10,152,000

• Employees

  -4.9%

  493 → 469

• Operating profit

  -52.1%

  £150,424,000 → £72,015,000

• Profit before tax

  +121.8%

  -£120,561,000 → £26,341,000

• Wages

  -5%

  £33,582,000 → £31,913,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

1. AIRWAVE SOLUTIONS LIMITED 2007-05-09 → present
2. AIRWAVE SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED 2007-04-23 → 2007-05-09
3. AIRWAVE O2 LIMITED 2005-03-14 → 2007-04-23
4. AIRWAVE MMO2 LIMITED 2001-09-06 → 2005-03-14
5. BT SIXTY-SIX LIMITED 2001-03-30 → 2001-09-06
6. BT WIRELESS LIMITED 2000-04-28 → 2001-03-30

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In assessing the Company's ability to continue to operate as a going concern, the Directors have considered the cash position of the Company, the forecast profits or losses from existing operations including the impact of prospective price control within the CMA remedies order and, after making enquiries, have reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these financial statements.”

Group structure

1. AIRWAVE SOLUTIONS LIMITED · parent
   1. Airwave Solutions International Limited 100% · United Kingdom · dormant holding company
   2. Airwave Solutions Deutschland GmbH 100% · Germany · dormant

Significant events

• “In March 2024, the Home Office issued a notice to Airwave to extend the Company's key blue light core contracts to a national shutdown target date of 31 December 2029.”
• “In 2021, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it had opened a market investigation into the supply of public safety mobile radio services in the UK. In 2023, the CMA imposed a legal order on the Company that implemented a prospective price control on Airwave.”
• “On 30 January 2025, after the year end date of these financial statements, the Court of Appeal denied the Company's application for permission to appeal the CAT's judgment.”
• “In December 2024, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) received an application to begin proposed collective proceedings against the company as well as Motorola Solutions UK Limited, a related group undertaking, and Motorola Solutions, Inc., the ultimate parent company.”
• “The Company has published its carbon reduction plan alongside an intention to track towards achieving net zero emissions by 2050, recognising that the Company's key blue light core contracts currently have a national shutdown target date of 31 December 2029.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.