NTIA told the FCC in a filing last week it...
NTIA told the FCC in a filing last week it believes spectrum legislation that became law in February requires the FCC to terminate the licenses of the government groups that want to build out early networks in the 700 MHz…
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band and dismiss pending waiver applications. More than three dozen are pending. “Congress, well aware of the barriers to interoperability that resulted from the ‘network of networks’ concept embodied in legacy land mobile radio systems, chose to invest $7 billion and create FirstNet to design, build, and operate ‘a nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network’ that is ‘based on a single, national network architecture,'” NTIA said (http://xrl.us/bm8r6n). “Guaranteeing interoperability for public safety broadband requires a nationwide network based on a single national design.” The legislation “made no provision” for the various systems being built under a waiver, the filing noted. NTIA was given a lead role in overseeing the new FirstNet in the spectrum legislation.