The FCC public safety spectrum capacity study released Tuesday “confirms...
The FCC public safety spectrum capacity study released Tuesday “confirms that a 5 by 5 MHz pairing of spectrum in the 700 MHz band is sufficient for broadband public safety needs,” said T-Mobile in a statement (CD June 16 p3).…
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“By deploying the technology that’s already widely used in the commercial sector, public safety can cover on an interoperable basis virtually any emergency with 10 MHz of spectrum. Any needs beyond that can easily be addressed with priority roaming across the commercial wireless bands.” Former FCC Chief Technologist Stagg Newman said the U.S. can’t afford to give public safety their own “lane” by way of the 700 MHz D-block. “The cost effective approach to meeting both needs above is to light-up public safety’s broadband spectrum while sharing cell site and fiber infrastructure,” he said. “The country cannot afford to build a new totally stand-alone dense cellular public safety network to support only one million or so users when each national cellular player supports many tens of millions of users on its infrastructure."