http://psafirst.org/experts/ en cmcconville@grassroots.com Copyright 2012 2012-01-12T22:24:02+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/public-safety-communications-and-the-u.s.-congress/ http://psafirst.org/experts/public-safety-communications-and-the-u.s.-congress/#When:22:24:02Z The Public Safety community has come together over a most important issue: Obtaining the needed spectrum, funding, and governance structure to build and operate a nationwide, fully interoperable, broadband network to add data and video capabilities to its existing voice and slow-speed data capabilities. Today’s commercial networks offer these services but are not built to be mission-critical, which is a requirement of the Public Safety community. This paper discusses the issues and the differences between the U.S. Senate bi-partisan approach and the U.S. House of Representatives’ majority leadership approach to solving this problem. Click here to download the full document. 2012-01-12T22:24:02+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/project-cornerstone-network-lte-testin/ http://psafirst.org/experts/project-cornerstone-network-lte-testin/#When:11:16:32Z 2011-09-26T11:16:32+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/d-block-and-s.-911-talking-points/ http://psafirst.org/experts/d-block-and-s.-911-talking-points/#When:19:08:08Z Sunday, September 11th, marks the 10 Year Remembrance of a day when our country changed forever. On 9/11, hundreds of our nation’s firefighters, police officers and paramedics lost their lives, largely because they did not have a reliable network over which they could communicate during the largest terror attack in our country’s history. A decade later, our first responders still do not have the tools needed to protect the public. 2011-09-06T19:08:08+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/psa-information-packet/ http://psafirst.org/experts/psa-information-packet/#When:16:11:49Z 2011-09-02T16:11:49+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/re-auction-of-the-d-block-a-review-of-the-arguments/ http://psafirst.org/experts/re-auction-of-the-d-block-a-review-of-the-arguments/#When:15:54:33Z Our analysis indicated that the 10 MHz D Block provides $3.4 billion more in social benefits if assigned to public safety rather than to commercial use, even accounting for the expected auction revenues from that block. That is, the financial benefits of public safety assignment exceed any lost auction revenue from the D Block. 2011-09-02T15:54:33+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/rebuttle-to-crs-report-on-interopreabilty-grants/ http://psafirst.org/experts/rebuttle-to-crs-report-on-interopreabilty-grants/#When:23:01:47Z Some in Congress and on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are pointing to a March 18, 2011 memo from the Congressional Research Service (CRS)1 to assert that the Public Safety Community has wasted more than $13 billion in federal grants for radio communications systems since 2001. In reality, the grants have totaled less than $4 billion and they have, in fact, provided for a higher level of Public Safety interoperability than ever before. In order to fully understand the impact of these grants, it is important to understand the many and varied issues that must be addressed if the ultimate goal of nationwide interoperability is to be achieved for both voice and data services for Public Safety. 2011-06-04T23:01:47+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/comments-of-andrew-seybold-enabling-flexible-use-of-the-700-mhz-public/ http://psafirst.org/experts/comments-of-andrew-seybold-enabling-flexible-use-of-the-700-mhz-public/#When:21:28:34Z Dated September 28, 2010: Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Seeks Comment on the Technical and Operational Feasibility of enabling flexible use of the 700 MHz Public Safety Narrowband allocation and guard band for broadband services. The FCC has asked for comments on the above matter and listed 22 questions it would like to have answered by the respondents to the Public Notice. 2010-11-29T21:28:34+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/eric-tac-comment-filing/ http://psafirst.org/experts/eric-tac-comment-filing/#When:18:27:55Z The Technical Advisory Committee of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau’s Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) is proud to submit the following comments documenting its initial perspective and public safety needs associated with the development of a nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network. 2010-11-10T18:27:55+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/strategies-to-implement-nationwide-roaming-and-interoperability/ http://psafirst.org/experts/strategies-to-implement-nationwide-roaming-and-interoperability/#When:18:13:00Z On November 8, 2010, Alcatel-Lucent met with staff from the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology. During the meeting, the parties discussed strategies to implement nationwide roaming and interoperability in the 700 MHz Band 14, as described in the attached initial and supplemented ex parte presentation based on our meeting. 2010-11-10T18:13:00+00:00 http://psafirst.org/experts/700-mhz-broadband-task-force-bbtf-final-report/ http://psafirst.org/experts/700-mhz-broadband-task-force-bbtf-final-report/#When:19:01:04Z BBTF was given the mission to develop the minimum recommendations necessary to ensure roaming and interoperability among localities and regions that have submitted waivers to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build out 700 MHz broadband networks ahead of a nationwide network. The instructions to the BBTF were to assume the use of LTE technology and to make recommendations only on the minimum requirements for roaming and interoperability, leaving the regional systems free to design and specify the technical parameters of their systems to meet local needs and giving the freedom to the regional systems to employ any additional requirements and applications needed locally beyond those recommendations in this report. 2010-11-09T19:01:04+00:00