February 09, 2010
Welcome
Statement from Chief Harlin McEwen, PSST Chairman
The Public Safety Spectrum Trust is pleased to be leading the effort toward creating a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety. We are hopeful that 2009 will prove to be a year of progress for first responder communications. We will continue working with the public safety community, the private sector, Congress and the FCC on getting the right rules in place to encourage commercial entities to partner with public safety. The thoughts and recommendations of first responders around the country are an important component to the steps ahead - please contact us regarding the creation of this shared network built to meet public safety's mission-critical communications needs.
What's New?
The PSST submits minimum requirements for local/regional public safety buildout. Click here for more information.
FCC build-out benchmarks cover a period of ten years. The FCC stated that a detailed build-out schedule must be included in the Network Sharing Agreement, but did not specify a market roll out schedule. The FCC has defined the following build-out milestones:
- End of Year 4 - 75% population coverage
- End of Year 7 - 95% population coverage
- End of Year 10 - 99.3% population coverage
