21 Nov 2019

(Wide area) radio, someone still loves you

Land Mobile recently visited Push-To-Talk Systems to hear about how it went about rolling out a digital public access mobile radio (PAMR) network – Push-To-Talk Max – across London, the Home Counties, Hampshire and Dorset, and upgrading to Capacity Max.

“[We started] probably about six or seven years ago,” says Stewart Menhenett, director at Push-To-Talk Systems, “and [as] there were no dealers offering a wide-area digital solution within the M25, we started to build this up and found a lot of people were using public access mobile radio (PAMR), Band III sort of systems that weren’t working very well. So, we demonstrated what MOTOTRBO could do and took quite a lot of business off some of these old systems, and started to increase the coverage.

“[However], at one point I couldn’t understand why we weren’t getting [a huge amount of] work, and [it was because many people require more] coverage than just [within the] M25, so when we started to expand down to Southampton and out into Essex, we started to pick [up more] work. And it developed from there, with more sites and more customers… to the point that we [migrated] to [DMR Tier III]/Capacity Max last year [from DMR Tier II/ Linked Capacity Plus], which was a massive step for the business.”