Senator calls for quicker digital TV transition
Grant Gross writes in InfoWorld:
U.S. Senator John McCain will push for an earlier transition of analog television spectrum to emergency response organizations, saying the April 2009 deadline proposed in a Senate draft bill could cost lives during crisis.
Many people in the New Orleans area died after Hurricane Katrina because police and other emergency responders did not have the radio spectrum they need to communicate with each other, said McCain, an Arizona Republican. McCain and other backers of a digital television (DTV) transition say the upper 700MHz spectrum would allow for powerful, long-range wireless signals that emergency response groups can use to better communicate with each other.
posted by Fergie @ 10/18/2005 04:04:00 PM
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