Public safety officials expressed anxiety over the many questions...

safety officials remain uneasy with a “bittersweet” victory at the FCC Thurs. “There’s no signal that we've picked up from Nextel that indicates that things are going south,” Werner said. “While on the one hand it’s better for us, we haven’t seen all the details ,and you have Verizon saying they'll pursue this all the way to the Supreme Court. We are just hoping at some point to have certainty.” Werner said he’s cautioning others against putting champagne on ice, for now. “A lot of people are celebrating, but if Nextel does indeed say ‘We just can’t do this,’ we're no better off than we were yesterday,” he said. Six public safety groups that worked with Nextel on the “consensus” said in a press release Fri. they were pleased with the FCC decision: “The FCC’s groundbreaking decision will be positively received in police stations and firehouses all across America.” But Harlan McEwen, a leader of the coalition and former police chief and FBI official, also agreed that many questions remain. McEwen told us in general he was pleased with the decision. “The fact that they made a unanimous decision is quite significant,” he said. “The financial aspects of it are obviously being examined by Nextel. Until they make some kind of a response we just don’t know what their position will be. They're central to the solution.”