Frequently Asked Questions
Below you will see a few questions that we are sometimes asked about the LTE and PoC radios that are becoming very prevalent in business communications these days.
Check out our QA section below:
What if I have Analogue or Digital Radios? Can I still use LTE PoC radios to communicate with those?
Answer:
- The LTE or PoC radios use a 'gateway' to communicate which is good news! So the gateway can act as a bridge between the LTE Poc devices and the analogue and digital radios. Take for example the Entel devices, if you install a gateway within the range of existing onsite digital or analogue radios the Entel gateway is preprgrammed with 1 x digital/analogue frequency from existing radio setup. The gateway needs the following connections:
- A power supply
- An internet connection
Other than that, you need nothing else, The Entel DN495 LTE Radios (anywhere in the UK) can then communicate back to base with the existing onsite systems. Just think how good this is for lone workers or man-down situations with people out and about all over the UK. But also perfect for drivers too so that they can communicate immediately back to base through the existing onsite systems used. It's a seachange in use.
Obviously if you need more than one channel then you need another gateway but for most customers a single gateway might suffice.
Here's a video of the Entel Tier 2 Gateway ...
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Answered here:
Scarily, you cannot communicate from 'brand A' to brand 'B' over LTE PoC. Of course this might well change over time (it has to!) so that LTE technology offers much more than only same brand to same brand of LTE PoC technology.
Answer here:
The LTE handsets are an approximation of other technology radios, but of course there is the monthly charge (albeit small) that you have to take in to account. But if that range really is important to your operation ... then what price can you put on a service like that?
Answer is here:
Indeed there are. The thing with all technology as many customers are aware is that it never stands still. Historically if an LTE radio system wanted to communicate with those older types of two-way radios generally you would need a 'gateway' for each channel. But things have now moved on dramatically, and there are now hybrid handsets that are actually all three technologies in one unit - and that is a game changer for some customers that need the use of all of those communication types throughout their company. Remember those hybrid systems have the ability still to communicate nationally.