Lol white elephant - every govt has a ready made supplyAshnm001 wrote:Unsure of plenty of things, but G20 is a pretty big deadline. there has been a few white elephant project of late, so i'm sure they are cracking down on things.brisescannerdude wrote:So what is your view on the network?
Managed service from Telstra sounds like a good idea. Leverage off the biggest telco in australia, but def not the cheapest.
Looking at the site list, it's a bit over the top, so it should provide good coverage and capacity. Riparian Plaza is a pretty high site!
Spectrum in UHF band is a bit slim, add narrowbanding and harmonised gov spectrum requirements, P25 phase 2 is a good idea.
Telstra if my memory serves me correct lot NSW GWN to airwaves last year after Telstra lost it and Vic will be up sometime so it will be an interesting outcome to if they renew with. Telsrta ability to deploy such a solution is not a question ability to manage long term could be.
Public safety have also been granted ~20Mhz in the 700/800mhz band to play with lte/data and other services, maybe the 450 million over 15 years spent where will be a waste as they purchased a technology in the sunset years of it life. There are some big moves in Europe to have next generation LTE based solution on line by 2016 to start to replace tetra systems for the police/ambo/fire groups, based on this time frame the technology could already be out there.
The flip side to 'UHF band is a bit slim' We can now start to see the direction of public safety communications and it is not with radios but tablet devices and smart phone like devices, there has been press in the last 3 weeks about the direction community safety has done with police and ambo/qfrs soon, this technology will more or less reduce the real capacity needs of this network (even if they do fill it with other govt users).