A California-based public safety communications coalition said the lessons learned from...
A California-based public safety communications coalition said the lessons learned from the Bay Area Wireless Enhanced Broadband System (BayWEB) project are beneficial to the FCC’s FirstNet initiative, contrary to the testimony by NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling during a recent House…
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Communications Subcommittee hearing. The appeal came Tuesday in a letter from the Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communication System Joint Powers Authority (BayRICS) to Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden, R-Ore. (http://xrl.us/bm8ykc). Strickling said a challenge of the BayWEB project is that it needed “to bring together cities and counties in the Bay Area into an appropriate governance structure,” the letter said. But Strickling failed to tell lawmakers how 12 Bay Area jurisdictions were able to establish a regional interoperable communications governance, the BayRICS Authority. “The Bay Area’s lessons learned, and resulting best practices are a prime example of the types of valuable input that the BTOP projects can contribute to the FirstNet initiative,” the letter said.