Sounds like Nextel/iDEN 2.0. It may be attractive for nationwide
businesses like FedEx, UPS and DHL, etc. where you could have fleet
management over a private broadband network. UPS gave up on their own
private 220MHz network long ago and went to the cellco's. So what would
be the point of trying to do this today? Cellular is already available,
like everywhere.
And equipment from Motorola Solutions? What, TRBO? Why? Two-way/PTT was
the cool thing back in the day. Today, you make a phone call or send a
text message. Two-way still has its place, but it's limited.
Public safety agencies? No. In Illinois we have the Motorola owned and
operated Starcom-21 and a majority of the cities and counties don't want
to pay Motorola access and equipment fees. Only the agencies that
already had a Motorola trunked network went to Starcom-21 because they
got very reduced rates from surrendering their 800 licenses and tower
leases to Motorola. Yet another reason why Motorola went to shit. You're
never gonna get all of the agencies to agree on anything.
On 10/24/2014 11:36 PM, Jason McKemie via Af wrote:
Not particularly surprising given the billions of dollars some
companies are throwing at startups for something they could do
themselves for $100 million or so.
On Friday, October 24, 2014, Rory Conaway via Af <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. You would think there are better
uses for $200M.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>] *On Behalf
Of *Jason McKemie via Af
*Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2014 9:20 PM
*To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Sprint owned 6MHz in 900MHz?
Better question is what are they smoking that makes them think
they're going to do broadband in 2 3MHz channels? Presumably 3 for
uplink and 3 for downlink.
On Friday, October 24, 2014, Rory Conaway via Af <[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/sprint-sells-900-mhz-spectrum-firm-led-nextel-co-founders/2014-09-17
Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless
4226 S. 37th Street
Phoenix, Az. 85040
602-426-0542
[email protected]
www.triadwireless.net <http://www.triadwireless.net>
