There is some ongoing growth in local government 700 / 800Mhz trunked radio systems in Massachusetts.
At this time - the State has a statewide system for the State Police - it is P25 digital in the West, and analog in the East - it is also heavily used by local police and fire units on Cape Cod Cambridge and Logan Airport have upgraded their analog TRS to P25 Worcester has a analog TRS The Boston area has a P25 700 Mhz TRS overlay to add capacity. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in Boston is upgrading their 3 site system to MotoTrbo apparently. The MBTA now runs a EDACS TRS in the Boston area Some state prisons have 800 TRS - as do some county prisons. The Springfield area transit system has just licensed a 800 mhz TRS. The Boston analog TRS has been merged into the State analog TRS. I dont think that there is a heck of a lot of private 800 Mhz TRS in use. There is one large 900 Mhz TRS for business users. Logan Airport might have a 800 TRS for the airlines. Otherwise, most business users with campus systems still use UHF AFAIK. We dont have large industrial sites here in the Boston area. The utilities are mostly on UHF TRS, and cellphones AFAIK. Bottom line - even if you merged all of the 700 Mhz and 800 Mhz TRS, you wiould still have kinda weak coverage in lots of areas. Especially inside buildings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
