Mar 10, 2009 3:05 PM, By Donny Jackson
On Friday, Cyren Call Communications and the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) announced they had mutually agreed to terminate their relationship, bringing an apparent end to one of the wildest roller-coaster rides in the history of U.S. public-safety communications...
...If the PSST eventually is stripped of its spectrum license, there likely would be a celebration among many public-safety entities that have asserted that a nationwide broadband model would not best serve local, state and regional interests. Instead, these entities believe the 700 MHz broadband spectrum should be licensed directly to local entities, a longtime practice in the public-safety arena.
Unfortunately, that strategy also has led to some unwanted traditions in the sector, including a lack of interoperability and massive functional disparities between the systems used by the "haves" versus the "have-nots." Whether things would be different this time around is debatable, but it's a debate that appears much more relevant today than it did even a few months ago, as the 700 MHz vision almost certainly must be revisited.
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