BROWSING: T-band

The Federal Communications Commission is usually enthusiastic about opening up additional spectrum for commercial use. Not in the case of the T-Band—which has long been used by public safety agencies in some major cities, but under a Congressional mandate, has to be auctioned off...

  The Federal Communications Commission has granted the Fire Department of New York expanded access to low-band spectrum in the New York metro area for public safety communications. The T-Band use will allow FDNY to expand capacity and coverage of its existing T-Band network to...

T-band spectrum used in 11 metro areas still slated for give-back Once upon a time in a Congress far, far away, public safety users were asking a national, interoperable mobile broadband network of their own. All right, said the congressional powers-that-be – we’ll set aside...