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RPCs often hurt, not help, interoperability

Stop bullying — or else
May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Robert H. Schwaninger Jr.

When RPCs were created years ago, it was because public safety convinced the FCC that they would encourage interoperability and interagency cooperation, ...
…So, here's my unsolicited but totally free advice for public-safety licensees across the country: Either get your RPCs to function as intended, clean up your own houses and start getting involved by challenging arbitrary and draconian decisions when they are made, or one day one of the abused public-safety licensees is going to cry foul in a big way. And the last time I checked, no RPC had a legal-defense fund…