©2011 Galesburg Broadcasting Co.
| Galesburg Council Approves VOIP System |
One vendor clearly isn't happy, while another likely is, after the Galesburg City Council gave its blessing to what the city wanted in terms of a major overhaul of the city's telephone system.
Aldermen Monday night voted to approve the purchase of $138,000 worth of Voice Over Internet Protocol telephone equipment from Iowa-based Communications Innovators, that will eventually replace the entire city phone system and save the city an estimated $80,000 a year.
But the low-bidder on the project wasn't Communications Innovators. It was Davenport-based Tri City Communications. Tri-City's Roger Killian told aldermen he doesn't get where he went wrong with his bid. "We really honestly believe we have a better solution," Killian said. "Through whatever mechanism, I think, the committee did not fully understand the way our system operates."
City Manager Dane Bragg, who was a part of the city committee that investigated the VOIP issue and what brand of system would be in place, says he doesn't see it that way. "The committee has done a very thorough review, and certainly, we appreciate Tri-City putting together a proposal, and we were pleased to work with them and have worked well with them in the past," Bragg said. "In the committee's assessment, the Mytel (VOIP) solution was not the best fit for what we needed in this organization."
The system that was chosen, Bragg says, is solid-state and has no moving parts, and will allow for the use of analog backup phone lines if there were a problem with the internet system.
A backup power generator for that system and the city's emergency lights was also approved to be purchased. |
|
| 03 17 09 by Newsroom |
Click here for the WGIL News Archive
Click here for national news
The following provision applies to all visitors (which shall include persons and representatives of legal entities, whether such representatives are persons or digital engines of a kind that crawls, indexes, scrapes, copies, stores or transmits digital content). By accessing this Web site or digital service, you specifically acknowledge and agree that: (i) Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium; (ii) No Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use; (iii) The Associated Press will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing; (iv) The Associated Press is an intended third party beneficiary of these terms and conditions and it may exercise all rights and remedies available to it; and (v) The Associated Press reserves the right to audit possible unauthorized commercial use of AP materials or any portion thereof at any time.
