Situation changes. After a few years, eLTE and DRM Tier 3 can become most popular Public Safety standards. It's could be. Even Motorola confirms that new broadband wires networks will replace traditional LMR infrastructure. But DMR very attractive and competitive. Now Tier 3 is very close to TETRA with it's features. It means that we have very seious competitor. And it's approval for PS is just a question of time and money.
What we see now? P25 Phase II is not very popular and growing not so fast as was expected. Also, it’s extremely expensive (and continues to increase price of everything, from radios to services, from parts to software; in case of Motorola). But Huawei and Hytera can seriously change this industry by penetrating NA market with their eLTE and DMR solutions.
Hytera…would have to have a working Tier 3 solution first and their support honestly sucks…but Sepura and Tait have some very good opportunities. Now, as you stated DMR does have many similar features to TETRA. In fact there are only one that I can currently think of that aren't offered currently…gateway mode.
DMR was never intended to be used as a Public Safety protocol. That's why there is P25 phase 2. Most PSA ignore the warnings about that. It is what it is.
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If only that statement was correct…DMR, like TETRA, was designed to be a public safety and commercial solution. P25 Phase 2 was designed in order to meet a prospective 6.25 kHz equivalent mandated…which is going into effect on January 1, 2017 in the US in the 700 MHz Public Safety band. That's even ignoring the fact that Phase 2 is a trunked only solution (so anything conventional will remain Phase 1).
When you actually look at APCO25, it has had some "odd" pushes. Ever think it was funny that P25 really wasn't all that much more expensive when it debuted in the late 90s compared to the analog (wideband only) solutions it replaced…looking right at the Saber and Spectra lines here? Or that as soon as federal funding became available the prices skyrocketed (supply and demand). Ever find it funny that federal funding required purchased equipment to be capable of the P25 CAI even though federal interoperability is 100% analog because it is the "North American Public Safety standard"? Or any coincidence that Phase 2 is the only technology which meets the 6.25 kHz equivalent requirement in 700 MHz?
I mean when you actually sit down and look, there a a lot of coincidences concerning equipment availability, timing with narrow band mandates, and migrations to higher frequencies (which require an increase in system sites). In the end, it's all about money.
