Written by: Anders Gratorp, Patrik Nilsson and Tore Smedman

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A value-add overlay that allows wireless operators to augment their service offering with dispatch and group-communication capabilities, Ericsson’s Pro product family is an ideal replacement for traditional PMR/PAMR systems, and offers a solution to the emerging market of workgroup communications.

The authors show how mass-market technology can be adapted to meet the highly specialized requirements of the private mobile radio market. Proceeding from users’ needs, they describe how design considerations led Ericsson’s engineers to select commercial, off-the-shelf technology for infrastructure and end-user equipment solutions.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 01, 1999]