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Radio Technology Services is an enterprise program, which provides the following services: Wireless Land Mobile Radio Systems (LMR) - We engineer, procure, construct and maintain mission critical wireless voice solutions for various State of Vermont Agencies, Departments and First Responder organizations. These systems provide Push-to-Talk (PTT) functionally. This is accomplished through the use of radio towers, microwave and fiber optic networks specifically engineered to be fault tolerant and constructed by the department for this application. Vermont Communications (VCOMM) - Vermont operates a statewide interoperability radio system for the purpose of cross-discipline communications between Police, Fire and EMS practitioners. Maintenance and operational readiness is the responsibility of Radio Technology Services. Vermont Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (VLETS) – VLETS is a law enforcement message switching system that is standardized to communicate with like systems in all other states, federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies and counterpart agencies in Canada. VLETS processes approximately 4 million transactions per month from and to law enforcement and criminal justice practitioners in Vermont. Telephony - The Department of Public Safety operates an independent Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) and digital telephone network. These telephone systems and Vermont’s 911 system collectively allow the flow of emergency calls from the public to be transferred to the first responders dispatch center. The Radio Technology Services program is the single point of contact for department.FirstNet - The FirstNet the mission to build, operate and maintain the first high-speed, nationwide wireless broadband network dedicated to public safety. As Vermont’s designated Single Point of Contact (SPOC), we represent all of Vermont first responders by promoting the communications needs to the national authority.