The Next Generation of Public Safety: Securing a National Mobile Network
Below is my Guest Blog that was featured on the Minority Media and Telecom Council’s Broadband and Social Justice Blog. The Next Generation of Public Safety: Securing a National Mobile Network by JORGE...
View Article4G Approved As Public-Safety Standard by APCO Global Alliance
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a recent U.S. public-safety LTE request, thus enabling the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Global Alliance to adopt LTE...
View ArticleBroadcasters Are Key To Life-Saving Efforts During Disasters
During a hearing of the Senate’s Commerce Committee on disaster preparedness, its Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) put in a plug for his bill to allocate the D-Block of spectrum to public safety for...
View ArticleRural Areas Expected To Benefit From Spectrum Bill
As reported by the Hillicon Valley: Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) are working on an amendment to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.Va) spectrum bill...
View ArticleImproved Public Safety Communications Underway
Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act - proposed legislation that will build a nationwide...
View ArticleStates Tackling Public Safety Needs of Growing Immigrant Communities
A recent report by the National League of Cities’ (NLC) Municipal Action for Immigrant Integration (MAII) program is drawing much deserved attention to states opting to develop public safety programs...
View ArticleEfforts to Revamp Public Safety Communications Network Underway
A recent article that ran in the Helena Independent Record in Montana describes the work that federal, state, local, and tribal authorities are undertaking in an effort to revamp the country’s...
View ArticleOngoing Challenges to Spectrum Usage
A CBS News article focuses on an important challenge the FCC must face– the wireless industry’s looming spectrum crunch. A few points from the article: Spectrum is limited and finding ways to adapt are...
View ArticlePublic Safety Network Legislation Not Likely Met for 9/11 Anniversary
Politco reports that it seems unlikely that any legislation creating a public safety network will pass by the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. Despite some bi-partisan support and intense political...
View ArticleThe Push for a Public Safety Network Continues
As reported in Cable 360: Lawmakers Propose Way to Fund Communications Equipment for First Responders Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ) and House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY), today...
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