Well you see...I work for a crown coporation that works directly with the WPS...and yeah....you think they'd tell the people they mis-budget'd that bad...that they couldn't afford to pay the subsciptions for the new multi-million dollar service they had just bought...I mean with the new police station being over budget 70million they'd tell us the truth about why they weren't using encryption for more then half a year...RIGHT....? Not...
Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. Your opinion, and fact, are two completely different matters.
Audio holes (incoming audio at dispatcher console) were observed. In the interest of officer safety, they switched back to analog in April 2013.
The matter was investigated and it was determined the DIU3000 (DIU = Digital Interface Unit), which is essentially an analog->digital, digital->analog converter, which also handles encryption/decryption of P25 data, was not functioning properly while in full duplex mode. WPS dispatch utilizes full duplex mode so an officer with priority traffic can interrupt a dispatcher.
The DIU3000 is a legacy device. It's no longer supported by Motorola, although they still sell them to special customers running legacy systems, like Winnipeg. (I personally sold 10 DIU3000s back to Motorola two years ago, through their DIU buyback program.)
As you may or may not be aware, there was a RFI (Request For Information) put out by the City of Winnipeg last summer, specifying their interest in purchasing a new trunked radio system:
http://www.winnipeg.ca/finance/find...51-2013//451-2013_Request_for_Information.pdf
As Motorola has an obvious interest in submitting a bid once the RFQ is out, it was imperative Motorola resolved the problem with the current Trunked Radio System/customer (Fleetnet, WPS) or the City of Winnipeg would likely not consider Motorola to be a serious contender.
Motorola corrected the fault with the DIU3000 and applied the fix(es) in early November 2013.
MTS and the WPS conducted tests in November, and deemed the problem fixed. (The testing could be heard on the MTS Engineering talkgroup in digital clear mode)
On December 10 2013, WPS switched back to their digital encrypted talkgroups.
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That is the truth. There is no conspiracy. It has nothing to do with "not paying for the encryption subscription". Encryption doesn't expire and there's no subscription associated with the hardware or algorithms the WPS uses to complement their digital service.
I am not a city employee, nor do I have anything to do with MTS or the WPS.
Please accept this as the truth and stop with the nonsense. Thanks.