[FedCom] Federal User's Nextel/Sprint IDEN?

[Arthur-Bryan E. Phelps]

The FBI, Treasury and U.S. Marshall Service (other than at Federal Prisons
and INTEROP ops) are high on the list.  The USSS uses NEXTEL primarily by
its "Advance Teams", when no other LE agency is involved.  I don't know how
extensively the BATF uses NEXTEL.  Some agents use standard (personal) cell
phones as well.  

-----Original Message-----
From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Ken
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:49 PM
To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
Subject: [FedCom] Federal User's Nextel/Sprint IDEN?

Recently I was looking at the new Sprint/Nextel site (Sprint bought Nextel).

I noted that from a federal prospective that the following contracts were 
available in the past:

*General Service Administration (schedule) -- Basically any federal/military

department can use.
*US Navy
*Federal Bureau of Investigation (blank purchase agreement)
*Department of Treasury (blank purchase agreement)
*DSSW ?

Some agencies'  traffic on normal fed radio frequencies seems to be limited 
basically to check in's/check's out, so I'd assume that the agencies are 
using some sort of cellular/pcs services.....

I think that Nextel's introduction last year of  "direct talk" (off network 
simplex unit/unit comms) was probably due to pressure from government 
agencies that wanted to have a simple method of communicating if they 
weren't within range of a nextel sites.

IDEN is currently not monitorable with consumer grade scanners....  Does 
anyone have an idea as to which federal agencies currently are heavy users 
of NEXTEL's IDEN service?

Ken


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