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O2 Airwave Service: Achieving Public Safety Inter... By MJM(MJM) As a result of leadership from the Home Office and Ofcom (and its predecessor) they all use one communications systems that is centrally managed: the O2 Airwave system. (O2 is the cellular operator that sprang out of the former British ... the US has thousands of independent public safety organizations which are independently funded by local governments and feel that they can independently select their own uniforms, guns, and radio systems. Time and time again the FCC has seen that throwing more spectrum at public safety makes interoperability worse, not better, if you don't exert real leadership... At present there are about 50 independent regional police forces in UK, probably being reduced to about a dozen in the next few years. As a result of leadership from the Home Office and Ofcom (and its predecessor) they all use one communications systems that is centrally managed...