Icom: Jim Hanshaw says LTE radio ‘not a threat … a new addition to the LMR family’
Jim Hanshaw, Icom’s technical channel manager for the South Central region, highlights the benefits of the company’s new LTE radio and gateway, as well as providing insights about coming products, during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at EWA’s Wireless Leadership Summit in San Antonio.
I think one reason that many feel that LTE may be a threat to LMR is that there is such a push nowadays to do everything with IP. There are many things which IP does very well, but there are also things that IP does not do well, but it is being used for anyway, because so many IT managers are familiar with it and not technologies like LMR. Thus, there is a feeling that LTE will be pushed in to replace LMR even if it is not the best thing to do! That’s my experience anyway.