Re: Vertel Team Talk TETRA
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:34 pm
Fair call, just seems to be the preffered system in the US?
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Matt
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Matt
Scanning Sydney & New South Wales / @scanSydney on Twitter
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US trunking is P25... there is quite a difference in the capital cost of a TETRA network compared to P25. For a start it requires substantially more sites. It is great where you have high population density (like India and parts of Asia) but I doubt that even Sydney has the density to make it financially stronger than P25 or the other commercial digital alternatives. Vertel are going to have to build it, operate it, and then sell capacity on it at a price that is competitive with the existing networks. It would have a potential niche in the intrinsically safe industries (because of the radios being very low power), but I'm not sure how these are going to pay for a network with coverage in areas where they don't need that.Longreach wrote:Ok so why isn't it profitable? Seems the US can make 800mhz trunking work and work well?
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Matt
Vertel has heaps of 800mhz freq's they already have.ivahri wrote:One & the same... 800MHz is EMBARGOED! No new licences being issued... unless Vertel hold current licences they aren't going to get new ones.
I don't see any frequencies listed for Vertel in the standard 800 MHz Trunked Radio band of 865.0125 to 869.9875 MHz.news wrote:Vertel has heaps of 800mhz freq's they already have.
Your comments make sense to me concerning over-investment.ivahri wrote:Grant,cartman wrote:I sat down and looked at what TETRA frequencies were active and what was spare in the Sydney region and got the distinct impression that Motorola has under-invested in putting up a network. They have decided to put up a certain number of transmitters and no more. There are numerous free frequencies to add extra sites if they wanted to put in saturation coverage for their portables and bases. Somewhere they have made an economic decision ... so many transmitters and no more. So long as they have this approach they will continue to have patchy coverage.
Grant
in Sunny Constanta, Romania without a scanner
Hope you are enjoying Romania... it comes down to what revenue it is generating. Why would Moto invest more in a network that is not profitable?
Richard