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Someone Somewhere · October 24th 16, 08:05 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 23/10/2016 00:41, wrote:
A substantial cottage industry
grew up finding and repairing such radios to keep the railway going. No
doubt the same sort of thing will have to happen with the successor GSM-R
technology.

I'd hope it wasn't necessary - from memory of my short time playing with
GSM-R the vast majority of the "technology" was just a big IN platform
in the network and a vast number of strange rules, so realistically any
GSM handset should work (although were there changes to ensure they
worked at full HST speeds, in which case I wish the cottage industry
luck with fixing that kind of thing!)

Actually - I've just looked and they decided to use different
frequencies which introduced a level of protectionism that seems
unnecessary.