Morgan O’Brien looks to partner with dealers in his return to enterprise dispatch with Pacific DataVision

When people talk about wireless broadband today, most of the conversation centers around LTE. In fact, you have been a big proponent of LTE in recent years. If the FCC allows Pacific DataVision to deploy broadband technology at 900 MHz, does the company plan to use LTE?

“There are different flavors of broadband, just like there different flavors of ice cream. Obviously, LTE is the flavor of broadband that gets the most attention. But, at the moment, we haven’t committed anything [to a particular technology]. We’re just saying that we believe that all of us benefit so that parts of the spectrum can be realigned so that there can be broadband.

“I’m guessing that it will be LTE, but there is that distinction that’s worth making.”

Why does Pacific DataVision want to pursue broadband?

 “Even if you [as a customer] are push-to-talk centric, you want all of the capabilities that you can get with broadband—mostly high-speed data and video. We think there is a segment of the market out there that wants and values push to talk, but they don’t want to turn their back on all of the upside of broadband. Those are the ones we’re looking at—in particular, critical infrastructure.

“But for this kind of a product, they really don’t have any place to go.”