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Volume 30 : Issue 192 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Wider-range cordless phones?
Message-ID: <1312169588.81289.YahooMailClassic@web161509.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:28:42 -0700 AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone suggest any particularly good extended-coverage cordless
> phone models for this purpose? Single line models are all we really
> need, though a dual or even quad-line model could be of some use.
> Models where you can exert a fair amount of control over the base
> station from the cordless handset keyboards would be handy.
Consider getting a DECT (used to stand for Digital European Cordless
Telephone but now stands for Digital Enhanced Cordless
Telecommunications) type phone see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:13:41 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Wider-range cordless phones?
Message-ID: <j171dl$ob8$1@news.albasani.net>
Rich Greenberg <richgr@panix.com> wrote:
>Before I married, I always had a phone in the primary bathroom, within
>reach of the throne. Only used occasionally, but glad to have it then.
>Currently, my wife has asked me not to install one there.
Your wife doesn't understand. When you're in the bathroom, somehow,
the people who are difficult to get hold of who won't leave complete
messages in voice mail or email just know that's when to call with
important information that you need that you aren't in position to act
on nor take notes. If you have a phone in there with you, it defeats them.
You want the phone in there so it never rings when you use the terlet.
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:31:03 -0400
From: Tom Horne <hornetd@verizon.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: L.A. County starting over on emergency communications system
Message-ID: <4E34BE67.9010001@verizon.net>
Some of the readers may wonder how a big company like Raytheon was
brought up short at the last moment: carefully read the last part of
this LA Times article and you have the answer.
The pending deal with Raytheon has been roiled by allegations of
impropriety for months.
Motorola Co., which also bid on the project, filed a formal
protest over the way in which the two companies' proposals were
evaluated. Company executives again vigorously protested when a
member of the county's negotiation team gave Raytheon staffers
classified technical information from Motorola's
proposal. Motorola threatened legal action if the deal with
Raytheon went through.
Because the board's deliberations were made in private, it was
not immediately clear how much, if at all, the prospect of a
protracted legal battle played into the decision by the project
board to walk away from contract talks.
Motorola officials declined to be interviewed, but made clear
they plan to compete with Raytheon once again for the project.
"We support the Board's action today and look forward to
responding to their revised solicitation as soon as it is
released," the company said in a prepared statement.
Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/
I think that about say's it all. Motorola is the undisputed king of
hardball in large contract awards. Raytheon undoubtedly was working
as an "Integrator", rather than taking a "Sole Contractor" approach.
As far as I know, Raytheon is not in the mobile radio business
directly. It is absolutely critical to the Motorola business model to
get these large contracts as a sole source provider so that after the
competitive process is over they have successfully wedded the buyer to
Motorola as the only practical source for expansions, replacements,
and spares. When Motorola is not the original provider they have no
practical way to charge five thousand dollars for each portable radio
in the out years of the project. Open source, standards based systems
are deadly to the Motorola business model.
Think of Motorola as the Microsoft of Radio. For Microsoft, Open
Office is the worst thing to ever happen in "Their" industry. Keep in
mind that mantra that Microsoft first introduced us to: "Fear,
Uncertainty, Doubt." And likewise "Nobody ever gets fired for
specifying Microsoft - er, Motorola."
-- Tom
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