Frontline Wireless agrees satellites are needed for emergency bac...
Frontline Wireless agrees satellites are needed for emergency backup in public-safety networks, CTO Stagg Newman, told us: Even if the most aggressive buildout proposals come to fruition, “you still have 25% or more of the land mass that is…
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not covered. Satellites are the way you cover those areas.” Frontline rival Cyren Call explicitly mentioned satellites in its proposal; Frontline didn’t. “Satellites have a long-term role,” Newman said: “But we are not focused on that in the 700 MHz band because satellites use a different band.” If an Internet protocol-based public-safety network is built as Frontline envisions, handset makers will be more willing to build dual-mode - mobile and satellite - phones, he said: “It is possible to give first responders a dual-mode phone they can carry but you first you have to create the ecosystem.”