Pennsylvania: M/A-COM's OpenSky works here

Despite the struggles that Tyco Electronics M/A-COM has had with the state of New York, the vendor’s OpenSky system is working well in Pennsylvania, even though the statewide system is still not complete, according to a state official. Last year, the Pennsylvania system boasted 17,500 radios on the network and supported 39 million push-to-talk communications, said Charles Brennan, deputy secretary of Pennsylvania’s office of public-safety radio services. “People used it 39 million times last year, so I assume it works,” Brennan said during an interview with Urgent Communications, noting that the network also provides low-speed data and network-based ...

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