RFSTUF

Funding PublicSafety Broadband
Sep 20, 2010 10:07 AM, By Andrew M. Seybold

... public safety can enter into agreements with companies in rural America that have an interest in broadband services and provide the network to them on a secondary basis. Public safety would not lease spectrum to end-users, but rather to organizations that want to make use of the spectrum for their own use, as well as sell broadband services to their customers. The issue with providing broadband in rural America always has been the fact that given the sparse population of these areas, the lack of a return on investment for commercial networks does not merit the infrastructure build out....