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Special Report: The D-Block and Law Enforcement

The attempt to clear the D-Block for emergency communications has been a long and winding path. This Special Police1 Report is a collection of articles on the challenges and progress toward that goal.

Have we finally reached a meaningful moment in the movement toward reallocation of the 700 MHz D-Block to public safety?
The FCC still wants to auction off the D-Block to a commercial wireless carrier but the Public Safety Alliance, APCO, and others are gaining steam in opposition
Chief William Bratton, LAPD (ret.) says of the effort to build a nationwide public safety wireless broadband network, “If we don’t get that D-Block now, we’ll never get it.”
A brief history of the effort to build a nationwide interoperable broadband communications network for public safety in the D-Block of 700MHz spectrum