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A Face-Off Over Sale of Spectrum by F.C.C.
By Edward Wyatt
WASHINGTON — Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks exposed the communications difficulty that police, fire and other personnel had in a crisis, government and public safety officials have wrestled with how to rebuild the nation's emergency networks. ...
...The F.C.C. contends that changes in technology over the last decade would allow private wireless networks to easily make room for public safety officials in an emergency. The alternative — combining the 10 megahertz of broadband spectrum already dedicated to public safety with a similar slice of the new spectrum in the so-called D Block — would not be adequate to handle a national disaster, the F.C.C. says. ...