RFSTUF

FCC Broadband Whitepaper
"This study reaffirms that our plan offers the nation a common sense and practical path forward to building a nationwide interoperable public-safety network ...

...Some primary reasons the costs increase exponentially for a stand-alone public-safety network are the following:

1. Public safety would not be able to easily leverage commercial resources and technologies associated with the build out of the network.
2. Public safety could not capitalize on existing commercial cell sites and towers.
3. Public safety could not gain access to equipment, including portable radios, at commercially competitive prices.

Conversely, the FCC's plan for an incentive-based partnership to build the public-safety wireless broadband network would establish a public grant funding program to pay for capital and operating expenses and would build in incentives to enable public safety to leverage commercial technologies and resources. ...