National Sheriffs’ Association Opposes FirstNet Controlling 4.9 GHz Band
The National Sheriffs’ Association met with aides to all the FCC commissioners, except Anna Gomez, on the group’s opposition to giving FirstNet use of the 4.9 GHz band through a sharing agreement (see 2401190067). “Sheriffs are the primary law enforcement…
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users of the 4.9 GHz band,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 07-100. Allowing FirstNet onto 4.9 GHz spectrum "would turn over the band to FirstNet’s partner, AT&T, to serve both its public safety and commercial wireless consumers,” the NSA said.