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TETRA in USA

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TheDane

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Hi,
We are two students from a Danish University writing our thesis, about the future for TETRA on the american market. Due to our lack of knowledge regarding the american market, we would like to have an experts thoughts and opinions on the matter. Therefore we are hoping if someone would willing to help us. Any answer would be of great help.

First of all we would like to know a bit about what opportunities / threats we have to be aware of on the american market compared to the european market for example? Is there different regulations? is there a bigger need for data transfer (i.e. the 2 x 10MHz bands wanted)? Which opportunities / threats do you see being the most important to take into consideration?

Who would you describe as being the competitors of TETRA on the american market?

Regarding the financial crisis, do you see the US government budgeting with a new Public Safety network in the near future? we know that this has been a big subject since the 9/11 where the network fail to some degree. what would you think the most realistic method would be, in order to build a public safety network, nationwide?


We are looking forward to hearing from you


Kind Regards
Andreas & Lasse
 

sharpj

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The future of TETRA in the US

Number one, the future of TETRA in the US is totally dependent on Motorola and who they sue. Motorola has intellectual property in TETRA (just like they claim in MPT-1327 & DMR-III). THe FCC has recently approved several waivers (suspention of the rules) to allow TETRA but the problem remains----if I build a system who will sue me. Presently, BC Hydro is planning to build a TETRA system but that is in Canada. There was a pilot TETRA system in New Jersey and one in Green Bay, WI. The Green bay one may expand and may become a commercial system. At this moment a lot of pressure is being put on Motorola to OK TETRA but that is like trying to pressure God to do something. The competitors are Iden, Open Sky which is similar and P-25 which is another Motorola stronghold--------because they have IP in it also. Want to build a P-25 radio, you must pay Motorola and IMBE royalties---so much for an open standard----it is a controlled standard. And of course iden is theirs----legally and ethically. I think the batwing boys are just waiting until you cannot license a 25 KHz channel due to narrowbanding and then they will claim TETRA is free to anybody. If you prefer to sell $3800 portables as opposed to $380 ones---thats the way you do it. The issue in my mind is freedom to chose not specifically being forced to buy a specific product. I've been in this business since 1964 (when I worked for Motorola at 4545 Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL) and the problem is not the equipement quality but the ethics of the business model. JES
 

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Gents,

It's extremely unlikely that the US Government would build out a radio system on the nationwide level in an attempt to unify emergency communications across the country. The reasons for that are that it would extremely costly, and the state and local governments who have invested combined billions in their own systems would not be happy if they all had to throw their systems out and switch.
 

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Want to build a P-25 radio, you must pay Motorola and IMBE royalties---so much for an open standard

IMBE is the name of the vocoder not the company. You would have to pay DVSI, the company that developed it royalties.

However, you do not have to pay Motorola anything. There is nothing licenced from them.
 
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