Talk:Mobile radio

Possible merge

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but is this the same thing as Mobile radio telephone ? Marasmusine 19:15, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

It depends on how you look at it. The definition provided for "Mobile radio telephone" talks about a very early version of the same technology as "mobile radio". The two primary differences that I see between the two terms is that in the definition of mobile radio telephone, its defined as 1) a commercially based system with 2) its own phone numbers. Not necessarily so on both counts for "mobile radio". The two differences denote mobile radio telephone as early cellular technology, which is a "one to one" communications telephony verses mobile radio which is a broadcast technology (one to many) The latter is a technology that's more appropriate, generally, to public safety applications (police/fire) than the former-which is more or less a one on one commercial wireless telephone service.

Perhaps my defintion of mobile radio should be amended to capture these differences.

Regards

Bayboy4 16:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I think mobile radio should have its own section. This will explain why...

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9076-1977345,00.html

Hi all and thanks for input. I placed the merge suggestion flag on the article. It doesn't look like a good idea at present. I am removing it now. David Jordan (Talk) 11/19/2006.