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Following directions key to rebanding

Published Monday, August 01, 2005

Public safety and communications go hand-in-hand because fast and clear communication is key to preventing and addressing emergencies. Much has happened since the events of Sept. 11, 2001, shined the national spotlight onto these issues, and it's encouraging to witness the FCC's latest step in advancing first-responder communications by mandating spectrum reconfiguration to eliminate interference to first responders' radios. First, a little background on the issue: Interference on public-safety radios at 800 MHz is occurring because commercial and public-safety radio frequencies are too close to one another in the spectrum. Interference can occur when the high-site/high-power operations of ...

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