[TrunkCom] cut over strategies for moving users to 800 MHz

[Jeff Kenyon]

Good evening everyone.  Since I got my Pro-96 I've been keeping a bit closer 
tabs to the progress here in Detroit with the cut over to the MPSCS 
subsystem that is up and partially running with some users.  Right now the 
current users are the DPW and lighting DEPT, and city offices and building 
security and the water board.  I'm not sure if the water board is still on 
low-band with a patch, but it doesn't appear to be patched to anything on 
the trunked system.  As far as coverage goes it is fair in Grosse Pointe, 
which is just a few minutes drive from the east side of Detroit.  I'm just 
curious what has been the strategy for moving other major cities to new 
systems?  It appears that with Detroit it is the non-public safety people to 
move over, and then I would imagine that soon they'll be patches appearing 
to VHF and UHF stuff, and then the cut over, but the other thing is that the 
move to digital has been delayed in Detroit several times.