Encrypted,is it,not for some while yet.Much was promised but little
delivered.Wait until you get your airtime bills.Then decide if you can
afford the add on's.Wonder if the local police authorities were told of the
running costs & what they will be asked to contribute.
"Concerned Officer" wrote in message
oups.com...

Paul Robson wrote:
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:43:47 -0700, Concerned Officer wrote:

Let me be quite clear about a few things first of all. It is the
government's fault that police forces have had to switch to
Airwave.

snip

Be fair ! Why should it be different from any other government
project.

Of course, why should it be. But on the flip side of this, some
Government-sponsored systems work wonderfully. Radio and mobile
telephone technology is nothing new, and all airwave has done, really,
is throw encryption into the mix and make minor changes to the mobile
telephone model. What is so hard here?

You didn't really think it would work did you ???

Considering they spent £2.3bn (and counting!) on the system, I would
have hoped it to work slightly better than the quality I can get out of
two tin cans and a piece of string. Sad, really.

Cheers,

PC A.N. Other.