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Emergency LTE broadband networks approved for construction in 21 waivers
International Business Times AU

Commission (FCC) granted conditional approval of 21 petitions filed by cities, counties and states looking for waivers to move forward with the construction of regional interoperable wireless broadband networks. The Commission requires these broadband networks to be deployed under a common interoperability framework in coordination with the FCC's Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC). Under this framework, all networks will be technologically compatible and interoperable.

They require use of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, they must support certain applications, including access to the Internet, to an incident command system, and to field-based server applications; and include a certain level of security.

The petitions approved today included entire states, some single cities, and some regional areas. ...