More offers to mend public safety at 700 MHz; Wireless veterans, McCain put forth novel solutions.

RCR Wireless News, March, 2007

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

A trio of wireless veterans unveiled a new plan for a national public-safety broadband network that would use auctioned 700 MHz spectrum to supplement first-responder frequencies in the same band.

Frontline Wireless L.L.C. filed its proposal with the Federal Communications Commission last week. Haynes Griffin, who founded Vanguard Cellular, is CEO of the startup. Janice Obuchowski, former head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, is chairman of Frontline, and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt serves as vice chairman of the company.

"Through a true public safety-commercial partnership, Frontline's plan provides a solution to the still-unresolved hurdles to interoperable communications...

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