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Members of a key House subcommittee today voted 17-6 to pass a bill that would reallocate the 700 MHz D Block to public safety and provide at least $5 billion in funding for the deployment of a nationwide LTE network for first responders, and that calls for public safety to return its 700 MHz narrowband spectrum to the FCC in the future.
House subcommittee approves D Block bill -- Urgent Communications article
From the article: [Returning the existing 700Mhz narrowband spectrum] has been a source of concern for first-responder representatives, because many public-safety agencies have deployed large, expensive 700 MHz narrowband systems in recent years or are in the process of constructing them, so the prospect of abandoning those systems in less than 10 years may not be politically or financially practical.
House subcommittee approves D Block bill -- Urgent Communications article
From the article: [Returning the existing 700Mhz narrowband spectrum] has been a source of concern for first-responder representatives, because many public-safety agencies have deployed large, expensive 700 MHz narrowband systems in recent years or are in the process of constructing them, so the prospect of abandoning those systems in less than 10 years may not be politically or financially practical.