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LA County taps Harris for new P25 system
Los Angeles County will not have to pay anything for a new $20 million Project 25 radio system from Harris as part of the county’s 800 MHz rebanding agreement with Sprint Nextel, according to the law firm of Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, which helped negotiate the deal.
Los Angeles County is part of Wave 4 in the rebanding effort, although it does not share radio frequencies with the country of Mexico, said Alan Tilles chairman of the Shulman Rogers telecommunication department.
Approved by the Los Angeles County board of supervisors and the Transition Administrator, the county’s early agreement should help other entities in Southern California complete their rebanding projects, according to firm, which also said that the rebanding deal will allow Los Angeles County to receive the new P25 network—replacing an EDACs network—at no cost to the county.
“It was truly a team effort … it couldn’t have been done without cooperation from Sprint Nextel, the county and Harris,” Tilles said during an interview with Urgent Communications. “Harris really went the extra mile to help us get this done.”
Cail’s broke anyway…. I
Cail’s broke anyway…. I wonder if they can tax more to maintain the system????? Good luck suckers
Way to go LA County, i’m sure
Way to go LA County, i’m sure the tax payers will appreciate that savings as well as the public safety agencies.
All we got was replacement
All we got was replacement radios, guess we had the wrong lawyers!
Oh there will be a
Oh there will be a significant cost to the County. They will be switchng from an IMC (Integrated Multi-site and Console Controller) to a VNIC/NSS (Voice Network Interface Controller & Network Switching Server) and Maestro IP Consoles. Their standard maintenance costs will increase significantly. If they add on the SUMS program (software updates and support) they may even have to lay of cops to pay for it. The cost savings in chosing that vendor was probably only realized by Sprint Nextel
from crap to crappier
from crap to crappier
You know you are getting old
You know you are getting old when they are pulling out systems you put in 18 years ago….
This system actually worked pretty well initially but I heard in later years they did not keep up with the maintenance on it.