In article , Steve Terry
scribeth thus

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tony sayer considered Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:16:53
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In article , Steve Terry
scribeth thus

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In article , Steve Terry
scribeth thus
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In , Steve Terry
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On 22 Sep, 11:55, wrote:
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On 22/09/10 11:24, Recliner wrote:
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In the early days of Tetra if it wasn't for officers being able to
fall back on their GSM phones, Tetra's many black spot areas,
would have made it fail.

Come on, there are many and still are several areas where GSM is ****
poor..

See first point above
There probably wouldn't be nearly as many poor GSM areas if a tiny
fraction of the considerable sums spent on TETRA had been spent on
filling in GSM holes.


Clearly there are two distinct points of view, one that stifled cellular PTT
offers cheap and practical closed group comms for the benefit of all users,
and two those with a vested interest in perpetrating the vast bureaucracy
and £Billion budgets of Tetra that didn't exist ten years ago, and are
looking forward to a replay with even bigger budgets and careers
to be made with the future planned Tetra 2.

Meanwhile on the streets, emergency services will continue to fall back
on their mobile phones for calls, and Blackberrys for correlating data.


I asked a policeman I know re this the other day and the Airwave works
fine and yes, he sometimes uses his mobile but for different reasons..


and with PTT apps appearing on the latest generation of Android phones
no doubt emergency services will find new uses for them too.

Steve Terry

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Tony Sayer