RFSTUF

Public Safety Broadband
03.04.2010 by Andrew M Seybold
... 10 MHz of spectrum is not enough for either the public safety
community or a commercial operator to handle all of the data traffic in
the top 50-75 urban areas....
...New York City has its own private broadband system that has been
in operation for a number of years. It is on the 2.5-GHz band and it
uses a different technology than that proposed for the 700-MHz band,
however, it provides valuable, real-world information about the types of
data usage and the amount of data required for many of the applications
being used every day. Further, since New York City has this system in
operation, it has firsthand knowledge of what is required and knows what
additional applications and services it plans to deploy....
Link to NYC Whitepaper