Presidential Partners Consulting has told the FCC that a 4.9 gigahertz band proposal submitted by the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council “is flawed in that the process to create regional plans is slow and at many times ineffective in maximizing use and it drives to carve up the spectrum among the NPSTC participants. The simple fact remains that if public safety had a high demand and need for this spectrum they would have found ways to deploy it.”

Instead, the firm said, the FCC should pursue a course where chip sets would include the 4.9 GHz band, Band Class 14 overseen by the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), and commercial cellular frequencies. “Our vision is that the 4.9 GHz public safety spectrum could be deployed for public use much in the same way home WIFI works today and that designs in the chip set could allow for shared spectrum use with public safety,” the company said in an ex parte filing posted online today in WP docket 07-100, PS docket 06-229, and WT docket 06-150. Presidential Partners’ clients have included commercial entities such as AT&T, Inc.

Courtesy TRDaily