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

[Jeff Kenyon]

Hi everyone, I heard from someone that there may be a possibility years
down the road of a nation wide M/Acomm OpenSky system?  The person I
talked to suspected that this would be coming, and I saw a story about
some kind of nation wide trunked system a few years ago, but can't
remember the particulars.





On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Arthur-Bryan E. Phelps wrote:

> 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-----
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> 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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