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Verizon Wireless Offers Integrated PTT and Land Mobile Radio

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this means???

KennyJ19

Aug 17, 2009, 4:14 PM
so can Vzw PTT and Sprint Nextel Direct Connect work with each othere?
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cellphonesaretools

Aug 17, 2009, 6:46 PM
It's designed for mainly government agencies to be able to interoperate communications-wise across otherwise incompatible two-way radio systems. They can each keep their existing two-way radio systems for their everyday intra-departmental use, then when there is a larger regional emergency and multiple agencies rush to a given area to handle the crisis, they can keep effectively in direct communication with each other using the radio-intertie capability. If it works, it makes a huge amount of sense, and saves the taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars over the entire US.

I actually don't know the answer to your specific question, but you'd think that if it can link incompatible two-way radio systems from various government ag...
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carmodboy99

Aug 18, 2009, 10:53 AM
Nextel was a leaky ship that Sprint filled with boulders, i.e. it was headed down a path financial ruin with no real formula for applying what I agree to be technically superior advancements (it always reminds me of the Atari story). Someone whispered to Sprint about this, and still with no real idea of what the hell was going on, they knew it had value and scooped it right up.

No, the LMR/VZW collaboration is in no way going to be interoperable with the Sprint network, not because its not possible, but just because they say so, lol. And when was the last time you heard of VZW saving anyone a dollar, much less hundreds of millions? Thats not their style, not how they became number 1.
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cellphonesaretools

Aug 18, 2009, 1:25 PM
I meant that LMR (land mobile radio) can save the various local/regional governmental agencies hundreds of millions of dollars by tying together their disparate radio systems, not that Verizon would.

Nextel actually did have well-defined technical paths forward in that they were planning on converting the voice network from iDEN to CDMA (hence their work with Qualcom on what is now Sprint's CDMA-based Qchat PTT technology), plus they were already in-process on a regional trial of Flarion's OFDMA high-bandwidth system for data. But you're right, Nextel's growth path was looking murky, which is why they decided to sell themselves to Sprint. And, as they say, the rest is history...
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