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Does MA Com publish, or perhaps there is an 'unofficial' guide for a list price schedule of 'options' such as adding more system/groups capacity, proscan, emergency etc by radio model? Might be a useful reference for those considering upgrading their existing feature set vs. purchasing a new unit with the desired options already installed.
 

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My understanding is that they won't sell you upgrade options anyway unless you're (A) on contract with them and (B) have the original PO number of the radio that you want to upgrade and (C) this information matches up with the contract (A) and the radio's data (Feature string, ESN, serial number) all also
match their records.

That's what they told me directly.

So if you don't meet all those requirements, you're kind of out of luck anyway.


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