Lesotho Electricity Company Chooses TAIT DMR Tier III Communications System
The Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) has just taken delivery of a nationwide multi-site linked state-of-the-art digital mobile radio system designed and deployed by Emcom Wireless, a South African based professional radio communications business.
Prior to this implementation, LEC, a long standing customer, made use of a combination of stand-alone analogue repeaters, cellular systems and landlines for communication across the regional offices, scattered across the mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho. Communication between centres, field staff and management was not only costly, but often cumbersome.
A detailed field study was conducted prior to starting this process and involved extensive travel across the entire country to not only identify suitable sites for use that would give best coverage, but also understand the operational challenges faced by users in their daily work.
Tait Communications of New Zealand was selected as the vendor of choice for a robust, feature rich and secure DMR Tier 3 product and work commenced a year ago to design, build and test the system under different conditions.
