RFSTUF

It’s a Busy World in Telecom
By John
A second characteristic of this DTV-facilitated spectrum is that another part of the band will support government services for emergency response and public safety in a sharing arrangement with a commercial licensee. What this means is that although this part of the band can be used for commercial purposes by an operator, it must support preemption by government agencies in certain circumstances, such as a national emergency, and in such a mode act as those agencies’ communications vehicle. This creates an interesting set of challenges because a suitable technology for both commercial broadband wireless services and public safety must be chosen and an operating agreement will need to be reached between the public and private partners in a Network Sharing Agreement that will be subject to FCC approval. There is pretty significant work already defining this but what is of interest is…