Why can’t roaming onto carrier networks eliminate the need to dedicate the D block to public safety?
Public safety has first hand knowledge of the need to control its communications networks. Many disaster situations have shown that commercial systems get clogged with drastic increase in demand. Even priority (without pre-emption) access on a clogged commercial system does not guarantee public safety access to the capacity it will need. Furthermore, commercial systems are necessarily built to meet the needs of consumers, not the higher levels of reliability, availability, in-building coverage, and user feature flexibility inherent in dedicated public safety networks.
Related Questions
- How is the interference issue associated with the D Block and Public Safety spectrum similar to the 800 MHz Re-Banding effort?
- Couldn’t filters be used to suppress the interference between the D Block and the Public Safety PSST spectrum?
- How will auctioning the D Block to a commercial operator result in coverage holes for Public Safety?
