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Willy and others,

This message is not "hot", originally published in June
2001..................see http://www.x-media.at/heft62001/22.pdf

Huub Roem, the Netherlands.



"willy" <will_hurst2003@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
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> FYI (originally in German it seems),
>
> Major TETRA project ends in technical fiasco
>
> Vienna, Austria
>
>  07 July 2003
>
> The Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior (BM.I) has put an end to the
>  ?300 million ADONIS project. The contract, awarded in July 2002 to a
> consortium called master-talk, was for the rollout and operation of a
> nationwide radiocommunication network based on the TETRA technology.
> Austrian Public Safety organizations were expected to use this new
> system for their communications needs.
>
> But the project has aborted due to major problems during the technical
> validation of the TETRA system provided by German manufacturer Rohde &
> Schwarz.
>
> An engineer of the BM.I project team, who wanted to remain anonymous,
> was quoted to say: "We would put the lives of the Austrian citizens
> but also of our own emergency personnel at risk with a radio system
> which is obviously still in the prototype stage. What we want and need
> is a radio that works at the touch of a button. Here we had something
> totally unreliable and therefore we could not accept this system".
>
> Siemens Austria, the system integrator, never passed the acceptance
> tests, originally scheduled for March 2003. The engineer added:
> "Allowing the manufacturer a few months more would not have been a
> solution because it was not simply a question of fine-tuning the
> system. We were dealing with critical issues: radio coverage was very
> poor for instance. And the system was completely unstable. Sometimes
> we had to turn off and on radio equipment to restore the service or to
> have the radio handsets correctly registered while roaming throughout
> the network. Communications were also frequently cut off for no
> reason."
>
> The BM.I have said that this technical fiasco will not change their
> plans to have a shared radio network for the Austrian "blue light"
> organizations. But it might change their technological choice. It is
> expected that a new invitation to tender will be issued within one
> year.