New York terminates contract with M/A-Com

[CCHLLM]

Ain't no such thing and probably won't be for a long, long time, if ever.

Apparently OpenSky doesn't work on OpenSky either.

 

[Disp46]

Never say never

Regionalization is very unlikely in NY. Too much "home rule" and local powermongering.

Even within a single county, unification of services is usually fought against tooth and nail. Albany County, for example, has a half-dozen PSAPs. Nobody is willing to give up control and allow their calls to be answered at any other center.

Keep your eyes on Central NY. The local Syracuse ABC affiliate WSYR did a small segment on how five counties are looking to establish a regional radio communications network.

Five CNY counties mull regional 9-1-1 network - NewsChannel 9 WSYR

And this is getting the attention of Albany too.

 

[studgeman]

Gee this might actually work, unlike SWN. I'll bet M/A Com isn't going to be building ANY of these systems. If SWN is a guide M/A Com couldn't engineer thier way out of a paper bag if someone gave them instructions!

 

[n2ops]

New York-M/A-COM impact promises to reverberate throughout industry

From Urgent Communications:

New York-M/A-COM impact promises to reverberate throughout industry

 

[radionerd13669]

Everybody has a version of the story.Ma/Com has to make it look like it is not their fault ,because I am sure they are getting phone calls from other customers regarding there system.Ma/Com needs to try to put their current customers minds at ease.

Its hard to say NYS prevented them from getting their system up and running.Next Ma/Com will say its Federal Eng Fault

AS NYS TURNS

 

[CCHLLM]

I'd bet much of the difference in opinion of "satisfactory performance" can be summed up as that difference in what's acceptable to the ivory tower position at MA/Com compared to the position of the end user whose life might actually depend on the damn radio.

 

[vabiro]

Looking at the difficiency list document (that is linked earlier in this thread), and the article from "Urgent", I can't imagin how MA/Com could suggest that the problems are of NY's making. It seems pretty clear that there were problems, an opportunity for MA/Com to resolve, retesting, an other opportunity to resolve, testing again, and the termination of the contract. All this took place over more than a year.

More than enough time to find some sort of resolution. Many of these problems were clearly QC or QA process problems.

Wx4cbh, I think you hit the nail on the head.

Cheers
Victor

 

[studgeman]

I'll bet some of it depends on the defination of 97% coverage. I didn't know this but aparently that stat is open to interperation. Tyco sure insists they are compliant