Thursday, March 3, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 03/03/11 -- Roberson and Associates, a Chicago-based technology and management consultancy led by former Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent top technical executives, today released a comprehensive study that refutes criticisms that commercial networks cannot guarantee priority access to public safety users under congested conditions. The study further demonstrates that the sharing of commercial network bandwidth with dedicated public safety bandwidth confers significant, additional advantages to public safety users. The study, commissioned by Sprint and T-Mobile, comes at a critical time in the national debate over the fate of the block of 700 MHz spectrum known as the "D-Block," and the building of a nationwide, interoperable broadband wireless network for the nation's first responders. ...
...Use of new priority mechanisms inherent to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. These mechanisms have not been available on any wireless networks to-date, and provide effective alternatives to the idea of "ruthless preemption" on legacy circuit-based networks.  ...

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