So with LTE, is the EU going to have it on it's own seperate netwrok, or is it going to be on the public cellular network where a cvilian watching YouTube can have priority over a paramedic?
I'm in the United States, so I'm not directly involved in anything elsewhere in the world. But my current job relates to spectrum management, and I do follow current events relating to spectrum utilization. Here's an article from a few years ago that outlines Great Britain's plan to migrate off TETRA to LTE, and the Home Office's program(me), itself:
U.K. Preps for Broadband Mission-Critical Network and
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-emergency-services-mobile-communications-programme
There's a whole lot more on it but I don't have a lot of time to dig for more examples right now. The UK appears to be in line with, or slightly ahead on their timeline with respect to the U.S. FirstNet program in implementation.
My understanding is that a "public safety LTE" network would initially start off as an MVNO with prioritization, and then, as revenues come in, the scales would eventually tip from MVNO to network operator with their own hardened infrastructure and exclusive spectrum. The other LTE partners in Band 14 would be contracted to provide overflow services. Public safety would have ruthless preemption ability over commercial users. So, the kid streaming Hulu or listening to Pandora may be consuming bandwidth during slack events, but would be either choked down or preempted during an acute event. Where we may see some interesting stuff is when we're transmitting bodycams, biometrics, equipment function indicators, sensors, and body area network information, alongside several dozen others doing it. And we might have that capability, but then the issue would be how much one person has the capacity to analyze before there is information overload or bedazzlement (looking at something spectacular and maybe not focusing on 2 minutes of air left in the SCBA).
The business model changes from time to time, but I believe the operator of the network would allow prioritized access to non-public safety users to obtain revenue for build-out. I could be wrong, as I've never completely understood our model here. I'm not sure of the UK or the rest of the EU, except that the movement is afoot.
Anymore, something like that would be a wireless "cloud" with 5G relying on not only LTE, but higher frequency and bandwidth femtocells and desktop hotspots to backhaul data through fiber or wired connectivity. The IoT concept and what it offers for augmented reality is going to require tremendous bandwidth, so the Hulu notion might not be the biggest competition for resources.