My comments are not directed at any specific maker of hardware but features sets.
UK are very much wanting to be the leader here and not get 'burnt' with yesterdays thinking.
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As this is a public forum I won't comment any further apart from saying that any reputable company or govt agency even considering some of the manufactures you have listed for mission critical applications or even medium duty use must have rocks in their head!!!! ...
Umm rock in there head - close to home we have the following reputable company or govt agency have rocks in there heads
NSW Govt - Using Tait, Simoco
Vic Govt - CFA - Using Tait
Brisbane Airport Corp - Tait
Ergon here in Qld - Tait P25 Trunk (Motorola was 2nd place on that contract)
Qld Rail/Pacific National - Tait and Simoco
QAS - Tait
QFRS,DERM - Simoco
Rail in Tasmania - Tait DMR
fortescue in WA - Sepura and DAMM tetra solution
Rio Tinto - Sepura and DAMM and Hytrea I believe
Any customer using any Kenwood NXDN (newscorp, crown casino to name couple), Icom IDAS (South bank corp), Tait, Simoco as there provider
Overseas
NZ Govt (police etc) - Tait
Chinese Govt and state police - Hytera plus others
South African govt - sepura plus others
thailand govt - Tait DMR
UK Police - dumping motorola tetra terminals and moving to Sepura and others until they get a plan together for post 2016
There are a large number of users from both govt of all type and corporate users have mixed fleets in Australia.
There are a lot more around the world who use other solution from other vendors and I'm sure they would laugh at your comment. Also any govt or corporate why puts all there eggs into one basket have a significant risk issue and need to be concerned they are loosing functionality and exposing them self to risk of a single supplier or leaving them self open to risk of bad software coding or hardware issues.
But they all have rocks in there head and are making un-educated decisions on there purchasing based on there needs and specifications and not playing follow the leader like a bunch of lemmings.