fyrfyter33
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If it's not free for MARCS users, which nothing from Motorola ever is, it isn't coming, plain and simple. My county just spent $20M moving to MARCS. Their part will have to last at least 15 years, before they will consider a replacement. Seeing the number of existing XTS5000s still in field use, even past EOL and eliminating parts availability next year, unless someone has a ton of money to replace those, it isn't going to happen.
Nobody has the funding in place to replace all of those. The regional grant won't consider the submission before 2018, because our XTS aren't 15 years old yet. This is a dollars and sense thing. Without the money to upgrade the end user hardware, there's no point in wasting it on upgrading the system with junk nobody can use.
Nobody has the funding in place to replace all of those. The regional grant won't consider the submission before 2018, because our XTS aren't 15 years old yet. This is a dollars and sense thing. Without the money to upgrade the end user hardware, there's no point in wasting it on upgrading the system with junk nobody can use.