All of the problems that they are currently encountering they would also have on Moto systems...the biggest problem is that the system is still in the birth process. The first big step in the implementation process is to first be able to carry its own traffic. The city's radio system is still in the proving ground stage where it is proving it's self reliability and functionality. How many of you think that you could pay the mortgage on your own home and then pay someone else's too? The resources are going into solving the city's issues before it can get poured into going outside of itself. As you have seen if you have been listening the only things that have been done and used are links to NORMAN FD/PD and Medi-Flight.
DPS/Moto 800 is still on a different band, using a digital protocol, other cities would still have to buy scanners to listen (try getting a cop to buy a 500 dollar digital scanner), other cities would still have to buy the radios etc to talk directly to dispatch, and they would still be *****ing cause they couldn't talk directly to OCPD/FD dispatch without them. So what is the better part about Motorola again? The only group not complaining are the people on the state's smartzone system, maybe because they understand the growth process, and have been in it for quite some time. Sounds like the problem lies more in a BAND issue than a BRAND issue.
The link radios will help some of this. OHP is the one agency that the city originally set out to talk directly to and then it developed into the others. The radio system has solved that original problem. OHP wanted to talk to OKC. They have solved that. While these measures are still being put together they are the original problems and they are addressed.
According to everyone else's view of how interoperability should take place we should all be on the same band, using the same radios, and the same system. Just how well does that work when the system goes down? How can that lend toward fair and appropriate business practices for using your tax dollars. Maybe everyone should just go back to VHF and use analog? That would be antiquated but would work.
Ever seen what a business does when it has a corner on the market? That business literally destroys it's purchasers for every last dollar. That is why there are monopoly laws. Tell me how much you would appreciate it if your tax dollars were used to purchase a radio system ten times the price for half of the system. That is what happens when everyone goes with the same system/brand. That is bad business and bad tax dollar use. I appreciate the fact that the money that I payed in was used for the best product for the user and at the most appropriate price. I would not have wanted to extend the tax hike for another ten years to pay for a system that would be abandoned by the manufacturer before it was put together.