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Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

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Motorola and the art of creating monopolies

What goes unreported is how Motorola Solutions have managed to dupe the Home Office into creating a fantastic market position where they simply cannot fail to lose:

Buying Airwave means they profit handsomely from any delay to the ESN programme...

Being awarded the contract for the push-to-talk software for ESN means they effectively control how quickly (or not) the new solution is deployed...

Motorola also control the ESN device approval process, so they are in a position of being able to set technical specifications that favour their device portfolio while providing the absolute minimum software support to other vendors...

Any functional software changes requested by users via the Home Office that don't match Motorola's own agenda or roadmap are either blocked or charged obscene amounts of money...

The big question is who exactly is in control of the programme right now. Is it the Home Office, or is it actually Motorola?

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