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my local Walmart uses new Motorola Curve walkie talkies. I dont believe They are using the five channel dot color codes but im not sure. Wifi voice?

Mogley

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I looked up the specs for the radio on their website it shows that they are Wi-Fi enabled. does this mean that they are like zello/5G type radio where I can't scan them?

The Walmart in question is the one on elm Street in erie Pennsylvania.


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This says they operate in the 902-928 MHz ISM band and also WiFi.
It's probably the same digital format as their DLR and other 900 MHz license-free radios so you won't be able to receive anything with a scanner.


The Walmart near me appears to be using these.
 

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I looked up the specs for the radio on their website it shows that they are Wi-Fi enabled. does this mean that they are like zello/5G type radio where I can't scan them?

This has been discussed in the forums for a couple years now.

 

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This has been discussed in the forums for a couple years now.
I forgot about that thread. I never knew if they finished rolling out phones to all employees or not. Here they still had Motorola and Baofeng MURS radios until a month or so ago. I have only ever seen them using phones to scan barcodes and use the web browser or some app to look up products. I haven't seen anybody using PTT or actually talking on phones.
 
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