Interesting find here, concerning buildout of regional systems around NW Georgia, Savannah, western Georgia. Anyone in Savannah who can shed more light on that buildout?
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Well, you will see one that RR adamently swears it's Atlanta Urban Area Security Initative, but it's nothing more than the Cobb County DTRS P25 system. Cobb County owns/operates this system, so it's not a build out because everyone in the Metro Atlanta area who has gone P25 have their own system.
I read over that article, only $2.5m is for training/planning cost (10% of the total). In the end, I'll guarantee you 90% will go to "training/planing" and only 10% will be left for equipment that will never be installed/used.
I suspect this will all just be a linking together of individual TRS's to cover a wide area. Chatham and Effingham are all on one system (3600 SmartZone), Bryan County is on their own TRS (9600 P25), and Bulloch is on their own TRS (3600 Simulcast). I understand that this is also planned to work down I-95 as well, with the Chatham, Bryan, and Glynn County systems if some of the other counties go 800.
Unfortunately, that's about all that I can add - not much really.