PSSA Defends Stance on Single Licensee for 4.9 GHz Band
The Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) fired back at the Coalition for Emergency Response and Critical Infrastructure (CERCI) after it questioned PSSA's advocacy of the 4.9 band (see 2312200065). “Utilities are coming after the public safety 4.9 spectrum,” PSSA said…
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in a statement: CERCI “has engaged in a campaign which misleads public safety leaders regarding the importance of preserving the 4.9 radio spectrum for public safety use.” The PSSA said the band should be assigned to a single nationwide licensee, which would “prevent an unwieldly patchwork of deployments across the nation and create the economies of scale necessary to speed deployment by maintaining a consistent set of build out regulations and creating the necessary incentives for the proliferation of new equipment and technologies.”