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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.

Cheers,


Richard

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


Grant

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?

John.

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

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.


Richard

Who are the other 2 if i may ask?

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!"

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.


Richard

Quite a few VRA Rescue Squads affected also.

S_T

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)

S_T

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.


Richard