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Guest Opinion: APCO President Greg Riddle on the D block
What will shake Congress into action? Help first responders help you Several recent incidents have shown once again the urgent need for Congress to establish a dedicated broadband network for
P25 radios have major security flaws, say researchers
A public safety land mobile radio standard for interoperability has major security vulnerabilities, finds a paper by University of Pennsylvania researchers. The paper, presented August 10 at the...
Guest opinion: Richard Mirgon on the D block
Guest post by Richard Mirgon The Right Side of History: D Block Spectrum Reallocation to Public Safety When Americans think of Osama Bin Laden and the events of this past week, perhaps the first
FCC adopts LTE for national public safety broadband network
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
Public Safety finds D block support in Lieberman, McCain and unexpectedly, Rockefeller
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
Public safety lobbying hard for D block license
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
First responder group disputes FCC D block analysis
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
FCC: 10 MHz is enough for public safety broadband network
Public safety's existing license of a 10 megahertz swath of the 700 MHz band provides more than enough broadband capacity to first responders except in the worst of emergencies, states a Federal
Q&A: APCO on the D block
Federal Communication Commission plans to auction a 10 megahertz swath of the 700 MHz block--the so called D block--don't sit well with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials. The
New bill would reserve D block for first responders
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the senior Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, introduced legislation April 20 that would reserve a portion of the 700 megahertz band for first
