[Scan-DC] Delaware expanding radio network

[L. Frederick Bunch]

In Delaware, a new radio-communications system, one that expands an existing
network used by state agencies, will now include local agencies and give
them the ability to link up. The new system will power up by Sept. 30, 2010.
State officials on Tuesday, Feb. 3, signed a contract with Tyco Electronics
Wireless Systems to obtain the company's 700 MHz radio network. The radio
system allows users of the state's existing 800 MHz radio system to connect
with one another.

One advantage of the system is that it allows first responders or workers
from different jurisdictions to communicate with each other.  A $7.3 million
federal Public Safety Interoperable Communications grant is paying for the
network, which is aimed primarily at promoting public safety. 

"This system allows us to provide communications capabilities to more
users," said Bob Pederson, director of the Division of Communications,
Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security.   He said the 700 MHz
system is similar to the 800 MHz system that Delaware began using in the
early 1990s.

For additional information, refer to a current article in the Cape Gazette
Newspaper which circulates in the Sussex County, Delaware area:
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200902/radionetwork06.html

 

 

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