Alcatel-Lucent representatives discussed the importance of early public safety deployments...
Alcatel-Lucent representatives discussed the importance of early public safety deployments in the 700 MHz band, in a meeting with Public Safety Bureau Chief David Turetsky and other bureau officials. “In the meeting, the representatives for Alcatel-Lucent asserted that the Commission…
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continues to have authority to permit the current waiver recipients to deploy public safety broadband networks (PSBNs), as well as to permit additional jurisdictions to commence early PSBN deployment, and urged the Commission to work with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the to-be-formed First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) to facilitate the transition of these early deployments into the nationwide PSBN,” said a filing on the meeting (http://xrl.us/bnb8td). Meanwhile, Nokia Siemens representatives met with bureau staff on the proposed national network. “The Nokia Siemens Networks representatives provided a high-level overview of the company’s latest efforts in developing solutions for the planned LTE public safety network,” said a filing on the meeting (http://xrl.us/bnb8t4). “Nokia Siemens Networks takes the view that this network will only be a success if the targeted end users, specifically first responders, find the capabilities of the network truly compelling and have confidence in its reliability and security.” The Nokia officials also said while the FCC “can and should authorize small-scale radio access network (RAN) pilots that seek to inform regarding end-user experience and may simulate deployment scenarios, it should stop short of allowing broader network deployments that threaten to constrain or overly influence the efforts of FirstNet to establish the ultimate governance and architecture of the nationwide PSBN.”