Push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) services have significant impact on commercial LMR market
Push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) services have significant impact on commercial LMR market, IWCE speakers say. Push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) offerings are replacing land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems in many commercial environments, as non-mission-critical customer increasingly are opting for the lower cost and application flexibility inherent associated with PoC infrastructure rather than owning private LMR networks, according to multiple speakers at IWCE 2018. Although more public attention is paid to the public-safety LMR new, first responders represent about only 20% of the overall LMR market that includes about 10 million radios, according to Igor Glubochansky, AT&T’s general manager of mobility product management. Entities that fit into the “extended primary” public-safety category—many of which also need mission-critical performance from their push-to-talk solution—represent another 20% of the LMR market, while non-mission-critical users account for about 60% of the LMR radios today, Glubochansky said.
Andrew Seybold, wireless analyst and author of “The Public Safety Advocate” blog, said commercial users that do not require mission-critical communications are proving to be ideal customers of PoC services—often with the replacement of an LMR system. “It’s already happened in the commercial space a lot,” Seybold said of the transition from LMR to PoC. “The number of LMR users in the commercial life has gone down dramatically. It’s stayed the same—or grown—in public safety, but the land-mobile radios in the business-radio market have gone down 30% or 40%.” To read more about this topic, please visit the website of Urgentcomm by clicking the 'Read More' link.
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