Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Want government reform? Idea #3: A new public safety communication strategy
September 6, 2010
by Reuven Carlyle
...Without question it's important to acknowledge that technically cell phones do have limitations – in basements, rural and other "out of coverage" areas they won't provide essential voice communications for first responders. But the very important and dirty little secret is that neither do the P25 radio systems, or the 4G/LTE systems. Our first responders need handsets that utilize the high feature / low cost advantages of open market cell phone systems, but also work in basements "peer to peer" when out of range of the system. And that solution still shouldn't cost $5,000 for each and every single radio. ...

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