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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPublic safety gets fed's full attention; Wireless bureau likely to take smaller role.
RCR Wireless News, September, 2005
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that he intends to create a new Homeland Security and Public Safety Bureau. Likewise, the issue of public-safety interoperable communications-including the return of analog TV spectrum-gained momentum in Congress.
The FCC's Homeland Security and Public Safety Bureau would include many of the issues-including 911, public-safety communications and other priority emergency communications-handled today by the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Martin did not name a chief of the new bureau, and the full commission plus Congress must pass off on the plan. "This is the first step in the process,'' said FCC spokeswoman Meribeth McCarrick. RCR...
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