The system was developed by Ascom Radiocom and was installed on the primary railways in Norway between 1993 and 1996.
The Åsta accident in 2000 spurred the need to give all parts of the railway coverage with train radio.
[2] On these lines, the dispatcher and drivers must communicate using the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT 450) standard, which by 2002 was being planned terminated by Telenor.
[3] Scanet was replaced by Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway (GSM-R) in 2007.
[5] The new system has been characterized as simpler to use and giving better audio quality than Scanet.