VoiceStream can provide priority access.

RCR Wireless News, April, 2002 by Silva, Jeffrey

WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission last week granted a waiver to VoiceStream Wireless Corp. to provide wireless priority access service to local, state and federal officials in the nation's capital and New York.

The waiver will expire on Dec. 31 or sooner if VoiceStream deploys priority access service under FCC rules.

The Bush administration made wireless priority access a high priority after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The National Communications System, which released a statement praising the FCC action, said it wants to have a national wireless priority access solution in place by year's end. NCS and VoiceStream were expected to sign a contract by the end of last week.

While the amount of the contract is unknown,...

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