Public safety faces big challenges following the approval of spectrum...
Public safety faces big challenges following the approval of spectrum legislation by Congress in late February, which includes more than $7 billion to fund a national first responder network in the 700 MHz band, public safety officials said Thursday during…
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a webinar sponsored by Urgent Communications. “This is a unique time where we're coming up on convergence, convergence of technology, devices, applications,” said Charles Werner, chief of the Charlottesville, Va., Fire Department. “Finally, one of the last and most important pieces of this puzzle is the nationwide public safety broadband wireless network,” he said. “For the first time we're going to have a resilient and reliable public safety broadband across the country from the urban setting to the rural setting and everything in between.” Werner said research showed that public safety needed the entire 20 MHz it will have for the network to build a reliable network. Public safety faces a funding crisis across the U.S. and needs to take advantage of “the economies of scale” that come with buying commercial devices, said San Jose, Calif., Police Chief Chris Moore. “Rather than having a lot of vendors … telling us what we need, this is our opportunity, our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to tell them how this network should be designed and rolled out."