The FCC has fined CENTURYLINK $16M and INTRADO $1.4 M for multi-state 911 outage that occurred in April 2014 that prevented more than 11 million people in seven states from being able to reach emergency call centers for over six hours.  https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-332853A1.pdf

The American Petroleum Institute (API), Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) met with Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau staff and 8th floor FCC staff to oppose vehicular repeaters on the 173 MHz band telemetry channels.  Also note that API, EEI and UTC recommended the FCC relax the technical rules in the band to allow 12.5 kHz operations that would support increased utility and CII capacity requirements for certain applications.

Following is a link to one of the exparte notices filed. http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001027847