700 MHz news from FierceGovernmentIT

A national broadband network for first responders would have to be resilient, available, reliable, secure and affordable, says the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In a Sept. 12 Read more...

Proposed Senate legislation to allocate a 10 Megahertz swath of 700 MHZ band spectrum known as the D block to public safety--and pay for creation of national public safety broadband network through Read more...

Witnesses at an April 12 House hearing addressing whether to reallocate a 10 megahertz swath of 700 MHz spectrum known as the D block to public safety stuck to their positions, advocating for or Read more...

Proposed legislation to allocate to public safety a 10 megahertz swath of spectrum known as the D block would pay for construction of a national first responder broadband network with auctions of Read more...

The Obama administration will now support efforts to grant public safety license to a 10 megahertz swath of spectrum known as the D block, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Jan. 27. Read more...

Long Term Evolution will serve as the planned public safety national broadband network's common air interface, the Federal Communications Commission decided Jan. 25. Plans for a nationwide Read more...

A senior Homeland Security Department official said July 27 that the government should hold off for now on a commercial auction for license to a 10 megahertz swath of spectrum. "At this point, we are Read more...

First responders garnered Senate support for their effort to license the coveted D block range of frequencies with the July 20 introduction of a bill from Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) John McCain Read more...

Public safety supporters of a House bill that would give first responders license to the D block swath of spectrum say they'll take their case to the Hill this week. At issue is a 10 megahertz chunk Read more...

A coalition of public safety groups charge that a Federal Communications Commission analysis of public safety wireless broadband needs suffers from flawed assumptions. The coalition, the Public Read more...