Gov't struggles to put wireless in homeland defense.

RCR Wireless News, August, 2002 by Silva, Jeffrey

WASHINGTON--As the nation approaches the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration and Congress find themselves struggling over how to integrate wireless technology into the new, sprawling homeland security regime. Funding and implementation problems are just the start.

Key policy questions--such as information sharing between the government and the high-tech sector-are in heated debate. Meanwhile, the wireless industry--desperately fighting to stay financially afloat as it attempts costly upgrades to networks that are Internet-and wiretap-friendly--is being forced to shoulder more responsibility on top of existing federal mandates that carriers claim are unnecessary. While progress has been made on several...

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