[BC] Frontline Wireless emergency network

[Robert Meuser]

Personally I have zero faith. You are asking the same people who can't 
keep our lights on to support first responders. I would rather give it 
over to Ham radio which would do a marginally better job.

R

Mike McCarthy wrote:

> In what I have read so far, the commercial user/subscriber would have 
> no say in the prioritization of users.  It's done at the system level 
> by the system owner and such would be included as a condition of the 
> license.  PS has priority over commercial...period. Even if the system 
> is owned by the principal commercial user of the system.
>
> The real questions I've seen surrounded more technical issues like 
> site design standards, etc.  RS222(G) has differing tighter specs for 
> PS towers than non-PS towers.  The same can not be said for site 
> access, security, buildings, power, grounding, telco service, etc.
>
> MM
>
> At 02:22 AM 3/5/2007 -0500, Robert Meuser wrote
>
>> 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)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Designed specifically for radio and television broadcasters, NAB
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>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dean Tiernan
>>>
>
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