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Police Chiefs Say FirstNet Will Make Best Use of 4.9 GHz Band

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is the latest public safety group urging that the FCC consider giving FirstNet control of the 4.9 GHz band (see 2402140037). The FirstNet network “has brought an entirely new nationwide approach to…

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public safety communications where state and local agencies no longer have to finance, maintain, and synchronize thousands of disparate networks,” said a filing Wednesday in docket 07-100. Because of FirstNet, “public safety is provided priority, preemption, and local control accessed through a portal providing command and control on an incident basis,” IACP said.