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

[Jeff Kenyon]

I don't know, but M/Acomm still is getting a bad rep as that project in PA
and Oakland County isn't even working.  Not to stray off topic, but in
Oakland County the new supposid state of the art M/Acomm system that is
going in service is not working up to standard, and they are putting two
and sometimes three cites in different communities, and coverage still
 isn't cutting it.





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

> Personally, I hope that M/A Com OpenSky just goes away, but with the $$ they
> are making from the Commonwealth of PA, they probably are more financially
> stable now than when the TYCO exec. decided to give himself an illegal
> raise.  One would think that the Motorola/Harris system would dominate the
> fed system by 1/08.  However, I see that several fed. entities have awarded
> contracts for M/A Com systems  -- makes one wonder.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Jeff Kenyon
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:15 PM
> To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
> Subject: RE: [FedCom] Federal User's Nextel/Sprint IDEN?
>
> 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-----
> > 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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