E-Comm provides police and fire specific SSAP call-taking and dispatch services for multiple agencies in the Lower Mainland and Southern Vancouver Island areas.
E-Comm's SSAP services cover from Whistler to Abbotsford, including the Sunshine Coast, as well as Vancouver Island from the town of Cassidy to Victoria.
E-Comm owns and operates the Wide-Area Radio Network (WARN), a shared communications system used by police agencies, fire departments and the entire British Columbia Ambulance Service in Metro Vancouver.
WARN was replaced in Spring 2018 by the Next Generation Radio Program (NGRP) Interest in consolidating emergency communications in southwest British Columbia began in the early 1990s following a series of large-scale disasters.
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E-Comm's buildings are post-disaster facilities, designed to resist a major earthquake or other large-scale disaster, permitting the continued operation of emergency communications in such a situation.
[3] Special attention was paid to the facility's mechanical, electrical, structural and communication systems to ensure they are highly reliable, fault tolerant and resistant to hazard.
Per E-Comm's press release, the new Motorola system has some new key features: Project 25 modulation allows first responder communications to be encrypted from monitoring by commercially-available radio scanners.