Seven years ago, thirteen associations put aside individual agendas to unite their voices in support of vitally important issues that affect public safety telecommunications. The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) was originally organized to encourage and facilitate implementation of the findings and recommendations of the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC), established in 1994 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to evaluate the wireless communications needs of local, tribal, state, and federal public safety agencies through the year 2010, identify problems, and recommend possible solutions. Today NPSTC provides a collective voice for a broad range of public safety organizations on public safety communications issues that are important to every U.S. citizen. For the first time in my thirty years of public safety communications experience, all of the associations are working together within NPSTC, with one voice, to bring about change.
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