Motorola benefits from delays in the UK's emergency services network, says govt The UK's Home Office has admitted Motorola has "very significantly benefited" from the delay to the Emergency Services Network (ESN) because it also profits from the extension of the current Airwave communication network used by police, fire brigades and the like. In a submission to the country's deals watchdog, the …
That's a nice way of saying that the sheer stupidity and incompetence of the government has resulted in a permanent river of taxpayers money flowing into the disaster they've created, in a desperate attempt to salvage the project, which may still fail anyway.
ESN isn't something you want to get wrong.
The whole thing should have been a supplemental data network, which could have been field tested as a supplemental system, and then had voice systems added later - as and when they were ready.
"Due to the delay in the delivery of the ESN network, the opportunity for additional competitive interactions arose; however, as these interactions were unforeseen both when the Airwave PFI and other contracts were agreed and when the ESN Lot 2 contract was agreed, the nature of those commercial relationships and other relevant features of the market has meant that Motorola has very significantly benefited from delay, increasing its unilateral market power in the process."
WTF ?? You mean idiots in government with no foresight have been screwed over by an industrial company with a monopoly on the technology?
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