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Verizon Wireless Offers Integrated PTT and Land Mobile Radio

Aug 17, 2009, 7:33 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Today Verizon Wireless announced a new offering for public safety and other agencies that rely on Land Mobile Radio systems for communication. Verizon, by partnering with Catalyst Communications, is offering push-to-talk interoperability with LMR systems. This will provide public safety agencies with a much larger footprint for effective communication by having access to Verizon's network as either a back-up or primary means of communication in addition to the LMR. Verizon is offering a number of different plan options that include combinations of PTT, normal voice, and the LMR systems already in place.

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KennyJ19

Aug 17, 2009, 4:14 PM

this means???

so can Vzw PTT and Sprint Nextel Direct Connect work with each othere?

cellphonesaretools

It's designed for mainly government agencies to be able to interoperate communications-wise across otherwise incompatible two-way radio systems. They can each keep their existing two-way radio systems for their everyday intra-departmental use, then wh...
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