[BC] Frontline Wireless emergency network

[Bill Smith]

For Public Safety? Not one of these guys has a clue how PS communications
work. If you read it, they are just another bunch of computer idiots that
want access to that nice chunk of 700 MHz spectrum reserved for PS.

It's an appalling idea. As is the one proposed by that Nextel clown Morgan
O'Brien with his new adventure, Cyren Call. How do you clear commercial
traffic off the PS spectrum in an emergency? How fast can it be done? Will
all the sites be hardened?

Of course they don't address these or any other real concerns, only a bunch
of fluff.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]
> On Behalf Of Jerry Mathis
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:23 PM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Frontline Wireless emergency network
> 
> Why is it a bad idea? It COULD be used as a link for EAS, especially on a
> national level. Even statewide, it would be an improvement.
> 
> JM
> 
> 
> On 2/27/07, Dean Tiernan <dtiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dean Tiernan (dtiernan at gmail.com) thought you might be interested in
> > checking out an excerpt from NAB SmartBrief.
> >
> >
> > So who thinks this is a bad idea? Why>
> >
> > Dean
> >
> >
> >
> > Group wants to create emergency network from spectrum
> > Frontline Wireless, a group whose partners include former FCC Chairman
> > Reed Hundt, is proposing building a national public safety
> > communications network that would be available to first responders
> > during emergencies and used for commercial purposes at other times, if
> > it can win reclaimed broadcast spectrum in the upcoming 700 mHz
> > auction.  Broadcasting & Cable (2/26)
> >