Not while there is a commercially available option. Telco have never, to my knowledge, expressed an interest in getting into the paging business but have endorsed funding to improve the RFS network. I'm doing some work with RFS currently and we are installing dual VHF (148MHz)/UHF arrays so that a single antenna can be used for both PMR & paging (with both RFS & FRNSW= and others- multicoupling their services to them). It's all about "small steps" towards proving that greater shared infrastructure is workable.SKEYGEN wrote:SA bought and built a paging network with the GRN, and the paging transmitters are collocated at GRN sites, and use the same backhaul.
Given that the commercial returns on running a pager network only get smaller from year to year, reckon there's much chance of NSW doing something similar?
Richard