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which is on the east side of Toronto said, ah, no, no, we're not going to do that. We're going to use something called IDEN. And IDEN was originally developed by Motorola, and it was basically a commercial cellular technology, and it was famously used by NeXTel for their push-to-talk system. And here in Canada, it was operated by Telus. So Durham Police said, hey, we'll contract out with you guys. And what was nice about the system is that it had built into it combined voice and data capabilities, and you could connect it to a terminal and their commercial iterations of it. What ended up happening is they loved the system, but it ended because public two things, public safety agencies, there was a push for them not to depend on commercial cellular network life cycles. And this became apparent when Telus began to decommission the IDEN system. And eventually, that decommissioning of it forced Durham Regional Police.