[BC] Frontline Wireless emergency network

[Robert Meuser]

Corporate greed. They will not be fully ready for an emergency. Some 
corporate users will not relinquish space, the system will fail.  Can 
you spell Katrina?

R

Mike McCarthy wrote:

> If built to proper standards, I don't see many issues with this except 
> where critical non-PS first responder operations share the same system.
>
> Compatible...Police/fire and local excavator or concrete delivery 
> dispatch.
> Incompatible...Police/fire and industrial plant first responders.
>
> MM
>
> At 11:05 AM 2/27/2007 -0800, Dean Tiernan 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)
>>
>>
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>> -- 
>> Dean Tiernan
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