CWA Backs FirstNet Control of 4.9 GHz Band
Communications Workers of America supports a Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) proposal that assigns the 4.9 GHz band to FirstNet, a hotly contested FCC issue (see 2407230045). Doing so would ensure public safety makes use of the band, a filing…
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posted Friday in docket 07-100 said. “CWA is deeply invested in the success of FirstNet, which was built and is maintained by AT&T, the only wireless carrier with a union-represented workforce,” the union said: Allocating the band “to a single nationwide licensee rather than multiple commercial users would facilitate rapid and efficient nationwide deployment and stop the slow and fragmented approach that has led to prolonged underutilization of the band in the last 20 years.”