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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedInteroperability debate pits software, hardware makers; Pickering latest legislator to take up first-responder public-safety problems.(News)
RCR Wireless News, March, 2007
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) plans to offer a bill mandating a federal standard for interoperable public-safety communications if one cannot be achieved voluntarily. But emerging technological solutions appear to be altering the broader debate over first-responder spectrum and interoperability and disrupting the competitive landscape at a time when billions of federal dollars are being earmarked to improve emergency communications among firefighters, police and medics.
"I hope to work with this committee to introduce legislation that would set up a process for the industry and the emergency response community to come up voluntarily with an interoperability standard. The failure to do so [by] a certain date, I would then...
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