The FCC knows how to answer communications challenges remaining from...
The FCC knows how to answer communications challenges remaining from the 9/11 attacks “and we have taken action,” Public Safety Bureau Chief Jamie Barnett said in a blog Friday for the ninth anniversary. “The FCC has taken concrete measures to…
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enable the first steps in the deployment of this nationwide interoperable public safety network,” he said. “We have recently established the Emergency Response Interoperability Center which is fast at work establishing the technical rules to ensure there is an interoperable nationwide network. We have also approved 21 early deployments of the public safety broadband network throughout the country. But there are many other steps which must be taken in addition to our efforts, to ensure that the network will be built everywhere and that it will be affordable and interoperable.” In the National Broadband Plan, the commission proposed a nationwide system using 700 MHz spectrum. “There is nothing inevitable about interoperability on this network,” Barnett said.