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How public safety got the D Block


How public safety got the D Block, what comes next

Congress finally had reallocated the 700 MHz D Block spectrum to public safety and agreed to provide $7 billion in federal funding to help pay ...

The D-Block, public safety, and a tipping point - Police1

Police Department and Chuck Dowd, Deputy Chief of Police for New York Police Department (NYPD). All three men — Dowd, Moore, and McEwen — each ...

Inside story: public safety and the D Block - RCR Wireless News

The allocation of the D Block to a nationwide public safety network follows months of hearings and negotiations in Washington. “The activities ...

The 700MHz D Block: What It Means for EMS

On Friday February 17, 2012, Congress officially allocated 10 MHz of the700 MHz radio band to public safety. Known as the D Block, this spectrum had been much ...

D Block Revolutionizes Public-Safety Communications

D Block Revolutionizes Public-Safety Communications ... Signed into law on February 22, the Spectrum Act gives public safety the means by which to ...

President to Sign Bill Allocating D Block for Public Safety - NASCIO

For years, public safety agencies, government officials and communications industry leaders including Motorola Solutions have called for ...

700 MHz and the D block - Public Knowledge

The idea was that a robust, dedicated public safety network would be built to the specifications of the public safety community, and in exchange ...

Public Safety D-Block Victory a 'Big Deal' (Opinion)

Public safety officials celebrated when President Barack Obama signed into law payroll-tax-cut-extension legislation and, with it, reallocated ...

D Block News - NPSTC

Senate Bill 3625 (McCain/Lieberman) and the proposed Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act, sponsored by Senator Rockefeller, all have provisions ...

Facts About Broadband, the D Block & the Coming Public Safety ...

The D Block is a 10 MHz section of the broadcast spectrum (758–763 and 788–793 MHz) adjacent to 10 MHz used by public safety. Awarding it to public safety gives ...

Why D-Block allocation matters - Police1

These technologies must have adequate and dedicated spectrum that is managed and controlled by public safety to ensure that they will be more ...

Public-safety one step closer to getting D-Block spectrum

The Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act is headed toward the full Senate for confirmation, after clearing the committee by a ...

President Enters the Rumble in D Block - Natural Hazards Center

As we reported in the June 17 DR, public safety officials and the Federal Communications Commission have long scuffled over a key piece of the ...

Is there new life for the public safety D block of spectrum?

The FCC's original plan for a public safety high speed Internet system was to auction off a pair of 5 MHz chunks of spectrum (758-763, 788-793 ...

The Future of the DBlock: What does it mean for Public Safety?

The D Block is the spectrum that the Government wants to allocate to Public Safety for the purposes of interoperability and a more uniform ...

Momentum builds for devoting D-block to public safety - Nextgov/FCW

Both measures are a blow to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and wireless providers such as T-Mobile and Sprint ...

700 MHz Public/Private Partnership Upper D Block

• Public safety services may use D Block spectrum in “emergencies” on a ... amount that the D Block license winner and PSBL have mutually agreed upon. – ...

Public Safety Doomed "D Block" Auction To Failure

In an auction in which a record amount of money was raised, the so-called “D block” which contained the shared public safety/commercial service ...

TALKING POINTS ON D BLOCK (S. 28/H.R. 607)

broadband spectrum that is allocated to public safety to create a 20MHz block of spectrum to build a nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network. • ...

D-Block: Utilities' Long-Awaited Smart Grid Spectrum

Even so, states including Nevada and Michigan have seen utilities and public safety partners lay out plans for new communications deployments ...


The Call of the Wild

Novel by Jack London https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzl7hFbnP_nvBxIbWuxZcvsypU_S9SqM89ylKpN6sWoi_Aciud

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Novel by John Buchan https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-jum4YCHFhG3svUj7RJmFVcET0Oqz0eHOPY5Xxj3vNLyPXxl5

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.