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CMA AGAIN DELAYS PROVISIONAL-DECISION REPORT ON MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS ROLE IN UK
PUBLIC-SAFETY COMMS


 * Written by Donny Jackson
 * 29th September 2022

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A report outlining a provisional decision whether Motorola Solutions’ roles in
United Kingdom (UK) public-safety communications—both the legacy Airwave TETRA
system and the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN)—should be altered has
been delayed until October, according to a UK government watchdog.



The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today released a new administrative
timeline for its investigation into whether Motorola Solutions should have to
divest its lucrative Airwave business, be subjected to price controls, or be
required to take other actions to remedy what has been described as “excessive
profits” from Airwave. After the provisional-decision report was delayed for
three months to September, the new timeline calls for the much-anticipated
report to be completed in October.

It is likely that the provisional decision will be finished within a couple of
weeks, because the administrative timeline also indicates that response hearings
will begin in October—hearings that only can be conducted, if there is a
provisional decision to which parties can respond. Response hearing are
scheduled to continue into November, and parties will be allowed to submit their
final responses in November, according to the new administrative timeline.



CMA is expected to publish its final report about the investigation in December,
according to the administrative timeline. If this timeline is met, the CMA would
complete its process about four months ahead of the statutory deadline of April
24, 2023.

Today’s delay of the provisional-decision report was not necessarily a surprise
to industry sources who have been following circumstances in the UK. Liz Truss
was announced as the new prime minister on Sept. 5, and new Home Secretary
Suella Braverman was appointed on Sept. 6, which some speculated was behind the
July announcement delaying the provisional-decision schedule by three months, to
September.

In addition, UK government operations were disrupted by the Sept. 8 death of
Queen Elizabeth II, which was followed by a nationwide mourning period through
her funeral on Sept. 19. Given the situation, the CMA delaying the
provisional-decision report by a few weeks was anticipated by many sources.

Shortly after former Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation in
July, the CMA altered its schedule for its provisional decision in the Motorola
Solutions case. The provisional decision was supposed to be finished in
June—with many anticipating a public release in July—but the CMA at that time
chose to delay the provisional decision by three months, to September.

CMA’s provisional decision is supposed to be finished in October, but it is
unclear when the much-anticipated findings will be released publicly. Throughout
its investigation, some items have not been released to the public until a month
after being submitted initially, particularly documents that are subject to
redactions of proprietary information. If this happens with the provisional
decision, the CMA’s proposed remedies for Motorola Solutions—if any are
recommended—may not be known publicly until November.

In contrast to the provisional-decision report, the latest administrative
timeline states that the final report would be “published” in December.

At issue in the CMA investigation is Motorola Solutions’ role in the present and
future communications systems supporting UK public-safety personnel. Motorola
Solutions owns the existing Airwave TETRA system and is contracted to provide
key software and services for the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN)
that originally was supposed to replace Airwave in 2019.

But the ESN still is not ready for public-safety use, resulting in the need for
the expensive Airwave network to be used much longer than planned. The UK Home
Office initially signed a three-year extension with Motorola Solutions to keep
Airwave operating through 2022, and a four-year extension was signed late last
year to ensure that Airwave would continue operating through 2026.

One issue for the ESN is the fact that the LTE network is not complete—notably,
most of the rural cell sites that the UK Home Office is responsible to build
have not been finished or are not operational.

In addition, ESN needs to have mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) implemented
as a mission-critical-voice alternative to the existing LMR system. The MCPTT
offering is supposed to be supplied by Motorola Solutions—based on the PTT
platform gained by purchasing Kodiak in 2017—but UK Home Office officials
repeatedly have cited MCPTT issues as key reasons for the delay in ESN.

Many UK officials have expressed concern that Motorola Solutions is slowing the
delivery of MCPTT to ensure that UK first responders remain dependent on
Airwave—a much more lucrative contract for Motorola Solution than the ESN.
Motorola Solutions repeatedly has denied this, noting that there are numerous
other area besides MCPTT that have created ESN delays.

Whatever the reasons for the ESN delay, it has become a costly proposition for
the UK government and its taxpayers. According to a filing by Home Office
Secretary Matthew Rycroft that was updated in May, the total cost of the
Airwave-to-ESN transition has risen by 6.2 billion pounds—about $7.6 billion, or
more than the total cost of the much larger FirstNet system in the U.S.—since
the project was procured in 2015.

Potential CMA actions in the matter including requiring Motorola Solutions to
divest Airwave or establish some sort of price controls on Airwave service.
Motorola Solutions contends that no such remedies are needed or would be
appropriate.

 


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