PSSA Defends Stance on 4.9 GHz Band
The Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) fired back at the Coalition for Emergency Response and Critical Infrastructure (CERCI) in their dispute over the role FirstNet should play in the 4.9 GHz band (see 2405100061). CERCI’s approach is “wrong from top…
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to bottom: its legal analysis is unsound, and its proposal for the use of the 4.9 GHz band would perpetuate the band’s chronic under-utilization,” a filing posted Friday in docket 07-100 said. Congress made clear that "it would not limit the FirstNet Authority’s ability to build a nationwide interoperable public safety network to a single generation of technology or spectrum band -- especially given the evolving nature of technology in general, and mobile technology in particular,” the PSSA said.