"alexd" wrote in message
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Meanwhile, at the uk.telecom.mobile Job Justification Hearings, Mizter T
chose the tried and tested strategy of:

On Sep 29, 11:59 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

Presumably, providing universal 3G coverage to the emergency services
would be an entirely different kettle of fish. Very expensive fish.

Depends how it's implemented. One could suggest ditching TETRA and
running emergency service comms over Skype on Three,

You nearly got me there, until I looked up and saw it wasn't Steve Terry's
name on the post!


I'm an advocate of GSM Pro PTT which has and does provided emergency
PR comms cheaply and securely in many countries for some 15 years.

I'd have to be foaming at the mouth insane to suggest Skype could replace
Tetra

I guess it comes down to whether a Gov in power at the time of such
decisions and issuing of contracts supports O2 or Ericsson?

If Ericsson, then that country is likely to get GSM Pro (at the cost of
£millions)
If O2 (or one of it's associates), then that country is likely to get Tetra
(at the cost of £billions)

Steve Terry
--
"I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena
without having guns pointed at me.
I also ask for the right to be wrong without being hanged for it."
- Wilhelm Reich, November 1947