LARICS shinks due to lost sites

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With its public-safety LTE system scheduled for completion in six months, the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System Authority (LA-RICS) has seen the scope of the deployment shrink as some member cities have opted out of the project or refused to approve sites, according to LA-RICS Executive Director Patrick Mallon.

LA-RICS LTE project shrinks as cities opt out, refuse to approve sites | Public Safety content from Urgent Communications

 

[techman210]

I can't help but notice the parallells to Riverside County, where many cities built their own system, and others opted out completely, and carry on without a fancy "P25 with Motorola enhancements" system while the County built many more sites than originally planned.... and now they are trying to figure out how to pay for the operational costs... and that's minus the LTR overlay.

 

[RadioSquad]

I can't help but notice the parallells to Riverside County, where many cities built their own system, and others opted out completely, and carry on without a fancy "P25 with Motorola enhancements" system while the County built many more sites than originally planned.... and now they are trying to figure out how to pay for the operational costs... and that's minus the LTR overlay.

You could not be anymore true. It is sure another Riverside County flowing over to LA-RICS. Most independent cities already have their own conventional systems like Long Beach that have a solid system and just can't see joining and paying big bucks for it. Why fix it if its not broke. These older VHF and UHF conventional systems work perfectly to their own needs and there is no big need for them to join.

Look at The City of Downey. They had the chance to join ICIS and they lost Montebello from Fire Dispatch to ICIS. They have their fire department and police department and they have a solid UHF and VHF conventional system that works fine for their surrounding cities. They probably got approached by LA-RICS to join too and say no at this time. More is not better sometimes. They try and sell all of these bells and whistles to smaller cities and these cities at the end of the day do not need all of this technology.