Motorola said in reply comments there is consensus in comments...
Motorola said in reply comments there is consensus in comments sought by the FCC Public Safety Bureau on the report of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council’s Broadband Task Force (BBTF), as well as the response of the Public Safety…
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Spectrum Trust to the report (CD April 8 p8). “Specifically, all of the participating public safety entities, i.e., those that intend to use and operate the wireless broadband networks at issue, endorse the essential framework of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust and National Public Safety Telecommunications Council Broadband Task Force recommendations, including the identification of 3GPP Release 8 (LTE) as the interoperable standard of all public safety wireless broadband networks,” Motorola said. “The Commenters generally agree that these recommendations strike the appropriate balance between flexibility and interoperability.” APCO agreed there was general consensus in the initial comment round. “There must be uniform interoperability standards for all public safety users of the 700 MHz band, whether they are operating on local public safety broadband networks, a national public safety broadband network, or (as the FCC suggests in the National Broadband Plan) roaming on commercial networks,” APCO said in reply comments. “The PSST supports the efforts of the Bureau and the Federal Communications Commission to advance the deployment of mission-critical broadband services to public safety,” the PSST said. “The PSST encourages the Bureau to facilitate life-saving public safety broadband deployment and address the technical aspects of any local or regional systems deployed on the 700 MHz public safety broadband spectrum with these goals in mind."