Quantum Paging in Receivership

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Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by ivahri » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:50 pm

For those who haven't heard the news Quantum (ex Link) Paging is in Receivership & in the process of being liquidated. I'm hearing the networks may be turned off tonight. Massive implications for a few users... but sadly it just goes to show that paging is not a money maker anymore.

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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by cartman » Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:48 pm

SMS via the mobile providers really killed it off as far as I can see
The writing was on the wall 7-8 years ago


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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by freqwaves » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:49 pm

The only pagers I see now are the ones handed to you when you order a meal at some resturants or pubs! :)
Don't the RFS still use pagers?

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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by matthewn1983 » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:57 pm

Yeah I heard some talking about it the other day, how the messages were being received all scrambled and to SMS crews.

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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by ivahri » Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:13 pm

sheesh... pagers are still used alot by FRNSW, RFS, & SES because SMS is of no real use if you can't guarantee that the SMS will be dispatched when you send it.

This is no joke... there are 3 agencies impacted by this liquidation.


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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by Longreach » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:30 pm

Who are the other 2 if i may ask?
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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by citabria » Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:56 pm

I remember someone once said to me "never outsource your core competencies"

I guess in this context it should be a message to the government - "never privatise your core infrastructure!"

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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by system_tech » Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:06 am

ivahri wrote:sheesh... pagers are still used alot by FRNSW, RFS, & SES because SMS is of no real use if you can't guarantee that the SMS will be dispatched when you send it.

This is no joke... there are 3 agencies impacted by this liquidation.


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Quite a few VRA Rescue Squads affected also.

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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by system_tech » Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:09 am

citabria wrote:I remember someone once said to me "never outsource your core competencies"

I guess in this context it should be a message to the government - "never privatise your core infrastructure!"
Would this include GRN too?

With mobs line Airwavestrying to get in on it?

(mind you I wouldn''t see Airwaves et al going broke and the govt would still own it but there may be other implications related to using contractors)

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Re: Quantum Paging in Receivership

Post by ivahri » Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:18 am

So we would still own the Government Printing Office... and the NSW government should own its own phone network too.

There are very good reasons to outsource critical infrastructure- it comes down to the way in which contracts are set up & also how agencies keep an eye on the financial strength of who they deal with. Maybe that is where some went wrong in regards to Quantum... I'm not going into the performance specs negotiated with Link originally but the specs were extremely tight and no other vendor could/would meet those terms at the time.


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