NEW AMERICAN FOUNDATION PUSHES PUBLIC SAFETY SPECTRUM REFORM

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Emergency communications need 揻undamental?reform, the New America Foundation said Thurs., urging a shift in focus from local to national control. A national system exploiting commercial networks as appropriate would be cheaper and more effective than today抯, the report said. The U.S. cannot leave it up to tens of thousands of local safety systems to decide how to communicate, study author Jon Peha, a Carnegie Mellon U. prof., said: 揟his is not how we design a complex system, especially a system that is going to be used to make life or death decisions.?The U.S. must drop the historic assumption that only govt. infrastructure can serve public safety and that public safety cannot share spectrum, he said: 揟hat was true with old technology but technology has changed... You can get just as far with a lot less spectrum.?