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Profiting off public safety.(Opinion)

Byline: Mike Dano

It looks like everybody and their mother is courting the public-safety market. Thanks to the wonders of digital TV, there's now a bunch of extra spectrum at 700 MHz, a valuable band due to its propagation characteristics. Congress agreed to give 24 megahertz of this newly freed 700 MHz spectrum to public safety, and then auction off the rest.

Of course, industry is hungry to bid on the 700 MHz that is being auctioned. However, it appears that won't be enough-industry now looks increasingly hungry for the 700 MHz of spectrum designated for public safety.

It all started with Cyren Call, which made a somewhat unique proposal to the Federal ...

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